Sentence examples for being modestly higher from inspiring English sources

12 It has been suggested that AF hospital admissions may also exhibit a seasonal variation, with the risk being modestly higher during the winter and inversely associated with outdoor temperature.

The rest of the stock market was modestly higher.

Indexes in the United States, however, were modestly higher in afternoon trading.

THE European equity markets are modestly higher this morning in the wake of the US election.

It was modestly higher on its first day of public trading and down by about half four months later.

Shares had been modestly higher at the start of trading on Friday after a surprising increase in February retail sales.

Gary Fries, president and chief executive at the bureau, said ad revenue for the full year would probably be modestly higher from 2003.

DeMenocal had thought that the dolomite level, if it were elevated at all, would be modestly higher; instead, it went up by four hundred per cent.

Shares of Affiliated Computer Services and Convergys, both of which compete with Electronics Data in the business-process outsourcing industry, were modestly higher Tuesday morning.

But in the wider universe of financial companies, including asset managers and smaller firms, compensation will be modestly higher, Mr. Johnson says.

After a week of huge swings, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, a broad gauge of the market, was modestly higher on Friday but still down for the week.