Sentence examples for for a very modest from inspiring English sources

I asked for a very modest £700.

She currently is up for adoption for a very modest fee of $400.

This meant an anti-climax, albeit for a very modest crowd in the stadium.

This was to be a paperback original, for a very modest advance.

"I can't remember exactly when I bought it, but it was for a very modest sum," he said.

Even though I recognize that all academic organizations have been going through hard times, Anne has worked tremendously hard for a very modest sum".

To discount the cash, he uses a 10% rate 3% for inflation plus a very modest 7% for the real returns he strongly believes he could get elsewhere in the stock market.

For what is a very modest hourly rate, teachers are (and always have been) routinely expected to prepare and deliver lessons, produce teaching materials, mark or provide written feedback on students' work, deal with voluminous paperwork, provide educational guidance, attend meetings and training events etc.

At its 41st meeting in 1993, the JECFA recognized that the model on which the PTWI for Cd was based did not include a safety factor, and thus the PTWI for Cd has a very modest safety margin between exposure in normal diet and exposure that produces adverse effects (WHO 1993).

"Despite having so much going for her, she's a very modest person".

As the efficiency of tumorigenesis is a function of the mutation rate raised to the power of the number of oncogenic mutations required for malignant transformation, only a very modest reduction in mutation rate would be required to delay the onset of cancer [35].