Sentence examples for except very modest from inspiring English sources

To be sure, they all support things like expanded day care, more affordable housing, and better transport links, but they appear to have accepted that the city can't afford anything except very modest steps in these directions.

The remainder of this 1935 statement continues as a plausible programme for a kind of theatre that we have come to know since, but which Auden could not then have seen in England, except in some very modest form, and which is not quite the same as what was being proposed by Brecht and others in Germany.

We had a very modest life, with no music or books, except for the Koran".

"He was very modest.

"He's very modest.

She is very modest.

"I was very modest".

Expectations are generally positive, but very modest.

"Don's very modest," Mr. Robinson said.

I asked for a very modest £700.

Not surprisingly, foreign investment was very modest.