Sentence examples for been less than modest from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, to date achievements in this field have been less than modest.

Our results do not exclude the possibility that long-term paroxetine treatment may have an either beneficial or harmful effect on quality of life or mental health status in diabetic out-patients with minor depressive symptoms, but the harmful effect observed in our study was less than modest and our results indicate that the possible beneficial effect is modest and transient.

The official biennale budget was less than $1 million, a modest sum for an exhibition of nearly 300 works.

That would suggest they were less than even this modest new funding.

And a piece of recent research, which shows that the cost of cutting pollution often turns out to be less than forecast, supports a modest estimate.

The least satisfaction was with the correction of the nasolabial fold area, with 17%% responding that the results were less than "very good" (minimal or modest improvement).

And even when the objects are less than spectacular — Hunter could borrow only modest items, nothing requiring special climate control or heavy insurance — they are rich with information.

Based on our results, the impact of adsorption on overall clearance of β2m was modest, always being less than 0.01%.

The size of the treatment effects were modest and were less than the prespecified effect but were achieved in a trial run in routine settings with a deprived population with high levels of mental and physical multimorbidity.

Her home in Pennsauken was half of a modest duplex that is less than 200 yards from a busy New Jersey highway, Route 90.

But two subsequent trials showed a much more modest benefit; in one trial, the advantage was less than a month.