Sentence examples for a very modest target from inspiring English sources

In 2007 the National Audit Office pointed out that the Labour government's funding was £150 million a year short of what was needed to achieve its own target, a very modest target, to maintain 63 per cent of existing flood defences in good order.

That turned out to be a very modest target.

When Alistair Campbell described many comprehensive schools as "bog standard" and Gordon Brown threatened to close schools if they did not achieve the very modest target of 30% of their pupils gaining five GCSE grades A to C including English and maths, it was clear that something had to be done to arrest the rot.

When Lighthizer announced a very modest slate of tariffs targeting Chinese-made goods last month, liberals and right-wing libertarians alike began tearing their hair out, while apocalyptic warnings about the supposedly devastating consequences of an imminent trade war began getting headlines.

Altogether, there is a very modest overlap between these gene lists, suggesting that in majority the v-ErbA target genes might not be deregulated during differentiation, in contrast with our expectations.

I asked for a very modest £700.

He's a very modest, efficient mover.

"He's just a very modest fellow..

That is a very modest start.

poverty & a very modest level of living.

He called it "a very modest step".