Sentence examples for increase modest from inspiring English sources

"One letter from a shareholder said: 'Where do you people come from, calling a 7percentt increase modest?

State Assemblyman Luis Alejo, who wrote the bill, called the increase modest, saying that it did not include built-in cost-of-living increases, which some other states use.

This week the NEA reported that, for the first time since 1982 when its survey began, the number of adults who said they had read a novel, short story, poem or play in the past 12 months had gone up, rising from 47% of the population in 2002 to over 50% in 2008.*The increase, modest as it is, has thrown educationalists into a tizzy.

But some small colleges with not much endowment can keep fee increases modest if they've found a niche.

"A 3.5percentt increase is modest at best," Mr. Krugman said.

The increase was modest, but forecasters had been expecting another decline.

The increase is modest given the scale of the global refugee crisis.

Although the increase is modest, the change in CaD phosphorylation levels is statistically significant.

Body weight increase was modest (2.1 kg insulin degludec; 2.0 kg insulin glargine; not statistically significant).

The magnitude of the increase was modest because these cells are already transformed, but robustly repeatable.

This increase was modest in magnitude (Cohen's d = 0.35) but statistically highly significant (P = 0.007).