Sentence examples for back to a modest from inspiring English sources

The History Old Westbury's origins go back to a modest time in the 1670's when Long Island's first settlers, English Quakers, established farms in the area.

The covers of the paperbacks of the earlier volumes in the series claim more than 50m sales, though the latest hardback scales this back to a modest 35m.

In both cases, the royalists soon bounced back to a modest lead, even if they never quite got back to the scores of about 70% they had enjoyed in the mid-1980s.

After work, Bobby heads back to a modest home, where he lives with girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black).

Consistent with this model, a scrambled insertion-loop mutant, which does not interfere with complex formation, fails to stimulate dHJ dissolution, reverting yeast Top3 back to a modest decatenase [ 31].

The weakness in tech stocks continued to benefit the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which climbed toward the 11,000 mark in early trading before falling back to a more modest increase of 0.4%.

Even people in their early 20s quickly begin to acclimate to their new lifestyle and find it difficult to revert back to a more modest one.

After that opener the audience was led through the church and deposited in a tiny seating area (the stage itself), where curtains were pulled back to reveal a modest, linoleum-tiled space, littered with typical community-room objects: metal folding chairs and tables, a few balloons and crepe-paper streamers, a tray set up for drinks.

Weekly first-time jobless claims have fallen back to a level consistent with modest hiring.

Clothes that hark back to a more glamorous, more modest age, in other words.

Refer back to Swift's A Modest Proposal.