Sentence examples for contained a modest from inspiring English sources

About three miles away was another village, Chah, which contained a modest cemetery.

Discovered by Tenney's widow Lauren Pratt in December, this page contained a modest, minimalist piece entitled All Sides of the Small Stone, for Erik Satie and (Secretly Given to Jim Tenney as a Koan).

This dubious place of worship, established in the 1820s largely as a burial speculation, contained a modest cellar in which the deceased were laid to rest in their thousands (ie. corpses were regularly surreptitiously cleared away).

In the first condition (magenta), the simulation space contained a modest density of dispersed receptors (106 receptors per µm2).

From all three environments, the great majority of barcodes were not represented by any known cultured dinoflagellate, and we also observed an explosion in the diversity of genera that previously contained a modest number of known species, belonging to Kareniaceae.

We experienced three different outcomes: 1) Some plates exhibited no growth of yeast colonies and are discarded without further analysis; 2) Some plates exhibited growth of a very large number of colonies (from hundreds of yeast colonies to a lawn of yeast); 3) The remaining plates contained a modest number of colonies, from one to a few hundred.

The excellent Blu-ray disc contains a modest commentary by Corman, a witty talk by Joe Dante about working for Corman, a brief, charming 1986 interview with Price, and authoritative essays on the film by Jonathan Rigby and David Cairns.

When Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani presents his revised budget proposal to the City Council on Wednesday, it will contain a modest cut in the city's income tax, senior administration officials said yesterday.

This paper examines a scenario in which fluvial erosion on Titan has largely involved erosion into an impact-generated megaregolith that contains a modest component of gravel-sized debris.

In conclusion, the intake of a low-GI breakfast containing a modest amount (3 g) of [beta ]-glucan for 4 weeks allowed good glycemic control and induced low plasma cholesterol levels in men with type 2 diabetes.

Little money has been available for maintenance, but broken windows are being replaced, prefects now have "executive neckties", the library contains a modest variety of books and there are ten computers, though not, as yet, an internet connection.