Sentence examples for if a modest from inspiring English sources
If a modest interjection amuses him, he'll take it up before tossing it aside.
This was the start, if a modest one, of mass air-travel.Flight of fancyArthur Raymond, the Douglas company and TWA had a winner.
If a modest ball-striker could still get the same results as the very best, I argued, that is devaluing skill.
Never has so much been at stake if a modest request for 10,000 to 20,000 international security forces is not urgently and immediately made available".
But the exhibition — organized by Louis-Antoine Prat, a Louvre curator, and Jennifer Tonkovich and Esther Bell from the Morgan — does end with a surprise, if a modest one, in a tender, portraitlike sketch of a young woman.
One Western diplomat laughed when asked if a modest force of peacekeepers — the African Union is proposing around 8,000 — could deliver the level of stability that the Islamists had delivered on their own.
If a modest-sized home has completely burned to the ground, you're talking about 30 yards (27.4 m) of trash - up to 10 tons.
How are the French to accept sacrifice, even if only a modest increase in the retirement age, if their leaders are not showing the way?
It also far exceeded the high estimate, if at a modest level, when it brought £313,250.
The show marked, in 1963, Hal Prince's Broadway debut as producer-director and, even if only a modest success, acquired a cult following.
He said Iraq was not, as some strategists inside and outside the government presumed, a "house of cards" that would topple quickly if given a modest push.
