Sentence examples for be rather modest from from inspiring English sources

Why is it then that Brentano's logic reform appears to be rather modest from a contemporary perspective?

This move would be rather modest, taking the United Nations from its perch along the East River and relocating it on Governors Island, the unused former military base in New York Harbor.

They do sound science and refrain from appearing too colorful but tend instead to be rather modest and shy.

But in substance, the change may be rather modest.

It "will be rather modest in size compared to the investments" at other institutes.

It's likely to be rather modest -- extension of unemployment benefits, a hike in the minimum wage -- but it's a far cry from his emphasis on bailing out the bankers in his first months in office.

Unfortunately, the rate of biological repair can be rather modest; it is not unlikely that the deliberate pace of repair might be overwhelmed by continuing tissue damage from continued repetitive and forceful loading.

Furthermore, although all indices were significantly correlated with GDR, the correlation coefficients were rather modest, ranging from 0.381 to 0.513.

Effect sizes of common genetic variants for type 2 diabetes identified to date are rather modest, ranging from 10to35%5% (7, 8).

From Table 9, it becomes apparent that expected migration flows from these countries are rather modest in size.

There are many excavated sequences but the numbers of points from those sequences are rather modest (perhaps unlike invertebrate fossils), nor is their co-occurrence in stratified sequences evidence of historical continuity in a set of points.