The phrase "age is modest" is grammatically correct but may not be commonly used in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the perception of age, perhaps in relation to experience or wisdom.
Example: "In her case, age is modest; she has accomplished so much at such a young age."
Alternatives: "age is understated" or "age is humble".
First, a decrease in malarial incidence is expected with increasing age, although in this area of relatively low malaria transmission, changes in incidence with age were modest [19].
The decline of ERR/WLM with attained age was modest.
Correlations across age were modest, with polychoric correlation coefficients between 0.29 and 0.40.
Overall, we conclude that the effects on body weight at 8 weeks of age are modest, except for F2 males, probably because these animals are young and were maintained on normal chow.
Because of this development of the project, the overall reach and intensity of Healthy Ageing after two years were modest.
Although there is some reduction in testosterone levels with age, it is modest.
In other words, the contribution to VWM variability of recall errors from multiple items becomes more independent with age, although this effect is modest.
It is clear that the bias in the age-standardised relative survival is modest for the less extreme scenario (labelled (A)) but becomes more substantial for the second scenario (B). Figure 4A shows the difference in excess mortality between the two populations per 1000 person-years for the first plausible scenario (A).
A stratified analysis by attained age revealed that there was a marked increased risk of prostate cancer in obese men compared with normal weighted men at age 50 59 years, while the RR in older age groups were modest.
Although increments of DALYs lost for the 45 54 and 65 74 years age groups were modest, diabetes burden increased heavily in the older age groups, for all five countries.
