Sentence examples for climbing modestly from inspiring English sources

Applications are climbing modestly after a big downturn in the mid-1990's, but they remain below the level of a decade ago.

The number of people who stayed overnight in park lodging -- cabins and hotels, for example -- has been climbing modestly since 1997, and reached 3.7 million last year.

The Indian rupee climbed modestly against the dollar.

The stock market climbed modestly after the Fed's announcement.

Home prices around the region climbed modestly last year, as they have the past three years.

Business investment climbed modestly, and manufacturing activity is picking up as well.

Crude oil prices rose nearly 1 percent to $79.78 a barrel, and gold climbed modestly to $1,121 an ounce.

Mr. Schacht said Lucent's sales might climb modestly from the most recent quarter, when it had revenue of $5.92 billion.

Computer sales are also expected to climb modestly, partly because I.B.M., the major company in the industry, will have strong shipments of its new mainframe computers.

American depository receipts, each representing three shares of Telefonica stock, have climbed modestly since they began trading at $20.875 on the New York Stock Exchange on June 12 , 1987

Although the number of school-leavers has climbed modestly in recent years, the number going to university has fallen.In an attempt to reverse this trend, Leighton Andrews, the Welsh education minister, has settled upon a new form of accountability, published last month.