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Overall unemployment is modest by past standards, at 8.6%.

That helped hold them to 167 yards combined, which is modest by Rams standards.

On the Republican side, Mr. McCain's fund-raising is modest by comparison.

The photograph, though large in this show, is modest by Adams's standards.

That is modest by Chinese standards but the comparison is misleading.

Speaking of people and cargo, the carrying capacity of the Murano is modest by the standards of the breed.

Such figures are modest by Asian standards.

True, the sums involved are modest by banking standards.

Estimated prices are modest by comparison with similar homes built by Ginsburg in other places.

Her clothes were modest by the standards of my Cleveland neighborhood but not by Kabul's.

But it's relative; they're modest by most standards these days.