Sentence examples for buying modest from inspiring English sources

A cash bonanza for ordinary people as families buying modest priced houses see stamp duty rates slashed.

The monetary authority will not say how much it has spent or whether it is still buying shares although it is rumoured still to be buying modest amounts.

Drug makers have long argued that buying modest meals for doctors is simply a courtesy that allows doctors to take a moment out of their busy schedules to learn about medicines.

A dozen streamed in to buy modest policies for themselves, their spouses and children, and sometimes their grandchildren.

After a season of back-breaking work in Sonoma, this Panglossian figure heads to Burgundy to buy modest grapes from a wine broker.

Some earned over $40,000 a year, including overtime, pulling them into the middle class and enabling them to set up 401(k) retirement accounts and buy modest homes.

By the time I graduated from Berkeley High School, in 1985, those Stinson Beach homes fetched more like $350,000, but even public school teachers and jazz musicians could still buy modest homes in Berkeley's lesser neighborhoods.

And the middle classes could buy modest copies of major works – an athlete firing an invisible arrow at an eagle, say – through the use of a cunning invention that scaled down monumental pieces to fit the mantelpiece.

It would be undeniably harsh to force pensioners who bought modest family homes 40 years ago, only to find themselves with post-gentrification goldmines, to pay an annual mansion tax they can't afford.

Mr. Backus and a handful of friends and co-workers at Tamarack scraped together enough to buy modest houses on Donnelly's tiny grid of gravel roads not long after Tamarack first opened for business, in the boom times of 2004, as a year-round golfing, skiing lakefront resort on private and state land in the Payette River Mountains.

For instance, if a user's net worth is $45,000, when they spend $50 they are able to buy modest necessities like food and beverages, or luxuries like books and cosmetics.