The phrase "achieved modest success" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone or something has reached a level of success that is not grand but still noteworthy.
Example: "The startup achieved modest success in its first year, attracting a small but loyal customer base."
Alternatives: "attained limited success" or "experienced moderate success."
Sure enough, Hamdan is undoubtedly being touted as a crossover star in Britain and elsewhere (she's already achieved modest success in France and the US).
All of the group's members aspired to act, and some, including Mr. Makem, achieved modest success, but by 1956 they were committed to music.
It had achieved modest success in its first year of attempting to accelerate economic reform but at the cost of increasing poverty and unemployment.
Masato Yoshii and Tsuyoshi Shinjo achieved modest success, but the Mets did not land Ichiro Suzuki, or the right Matsui, or even Nomo at the right point in his career.
Yachty, whose playful songs like "1 Night" and "Minnesota" had achieved modest success online, remained standing for hours, dressed in an oversized red sweatshirt, even as other models, exhausted, began to sit.
Some achieved modest success, like "America's Next Top Model," which began its second season on UPN last week; "Star Seach," which returned yesterday to CBS; and "Nashville Star," scheduled for another run on USA in March.
Their Sisyphean attempts at self-reinvention are both entertaining and poignant; the most ambitious of them achieves modest success selling dubious health products, before falling under the spell of an American raw-food guru.
As a young adult, Angelou had a series of jobs and occupations, achieving modest success as a singer, dancer, and performer.
For example, a mutant of CdtA (unable to bind its natural receptor) from A. actinomycetemcomitans has been conjugated to a human monoclonal antibody against CD133 to target the toxin to CD133+ head and neck cancer cell lines, achieving modest success in growth inhibition of CD133+ tumor cells.
A critical disaster, it only achieved modest commercial success, thanks to lacklustre tunes, second-rung casting and an inordinate running time.
Cool Kids has sold more than a million copies in the US and achieved modest UK success last month, mainly by sounding enough like Taylor Swift to position the band in her slipstream.
