Sentence examples for be very modest to from inspiring English sources

I'd be very modest to say that the rumors aren't that bad, but it's certainly not all that good.

Investors decided that expectations for an oil output deal had been very modest to begin with, said Eric Wiegand, senior portfolio manager at U.S. Bank Wealth Management.

"Blocking publication may provide some small increment of safety, but it will be very modest compared to the benefits of not doing the work in the first place".

People in some other countries are brought up to be very modest with others and to think that it is gauche to talk of their accomplishments openly.

We've got to be very modest in our expectations".

Wheelus Field has been leased by the United States government — part of it from the Libyan government and the rest from individual landholders — for a sum that, though undisclosed, is known to be very modest.

I found that to be very modest.

Treatment guidelines are based on less than twenty trials that have found the effect of antibiotics on symptomatic outcomes in AOM, such as pain, to be very modest.

The current global economic crisis has created a significant drop in available funds for Italian public schools and universities - as is also the case in the US - so the project needed to be very modest in cost.

Actually, innovations tend to be very modest, and often not very sexy changes.

I tend to be very modest about these things, but I thought we had a really good shot at screenplay because in all the awards running up to that, we were winning for screenplay.