Sentence examples for exactly a modest from inspiring English sources

It wasn't exactly a modest portfolio, but it was certainly a manageable one.

"It has not always been exactly a modest life, but Walter is not a big spender compared to other billionaires".

We do not know exactly how a modest change in the activity profile of its P450 enzymes would affect the metabolism of a bacterium living in an environment with fluctuating concentrations of various substrates.

But it's worth pausing to sound not exactly a warning but a modest caveat.

"Big heads scattered throughout the woods is not exactly going to have a modest impact on the landscape," said Edwin J. Pease, an architect and adjunct professor of art at the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg.

The shed will be demolished (just as soon as the project organisers work out exactly who owns it), and a modest little building constructed in its place.

This was not exactly mission control in Houston but a modest meeting room at the Open University's centre in north London.

And she becomes a one-woman girl group in "Say You're Sorry," a breakup song demanding exactly that modest concession, and in "Not Alone," a study in separation anxiety.

The news did not exactly break the internet, but it did cause a modest kerfuffle, more than the fortysomething foursome were anticipating.

No word on what exactly it would entail, but this could imply a modest update for the company's tablet.

That might be a modest victory, but that's exactly the kind of victory that women like me are used to settling for.