Sentence examples for expected to make modest from inspiring English sources

Davey said: "We did not come to Warsaw expecting to sign a treaty – we expected to make modest progress on the building blocks, the foundations, the nuts and bolts [of a new global agreement] and that is what we are on course to achieve".

This procedure reflected the study design under which Group A was expected to make significant changes between visit 1 and visit 2, then preserve or increase those changes at visit 3, while Group B was expected to make modest changes between visit 1 and visit 2, but greater changes between visit 2 and visit 3.

Households fitting this technology can expect to make modest carbon savings as well saving around £60 a year compared to a typical condensing gas boiler.

But there could be a case for using the money saved by the fact that the Government is borrowing more cheaply than it expected to make some modest tax cuts, particularly for the low-paid.

Obama is expected to make a modest impact in London, next to the furrowed brow of the rather unpopular prime minister Gordon Brown; he has already delivered his knockout blow in Berlin, as well as an upbeat press conference in Paris next to a giddy Nicolas Sarkozy.

As a result, underestimation of lifetime number of cigarettes smoked per day due to over-reporting of smoking early in life would be expected to make only a modest contribution to mis-estimation of the risk and that mis-estimation should largely be absorbed by the constant parameter used to adjust for healthy populations (α1), since the effect would be approximated by a constant.

However, at the high concentrations of hemoglobin present in RBCs, the dimer will be very much a minority species and therefore would be expected to make only a very modest contribution to the overall rate of Hb autoxidation, unless the intracellular rate of heme dissociation and autoxidation is dramatically different from that measured in vitro.

Under the new management, MGM is expected to make just four to six movies a year, most with modest budgets of $50m.

It is expected to make testable predictions.

He expected to make up time here.

They are expected to make $1.9 billion.