Sentence examples for making very modest from inspiring English sources

"Because I began to think like a curator and realized that I was making very modest art.

It has the advantages of being simple in concept and implementation, and making very modest computational demands.

It suited the BBC's UK programme commissioners but as a result BBC Enterprises made very modest profits indeed.

Mr. Horton said American had not discussed how it would finance the newer planes, but said the airline was making a "very modest" down payment for them.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport told the BBC: "Protecting arts funding while cutting public spending in other areas is simply not an option, although the reductions we have made are very modest.

YouView made a very modest £2.35m in revenues from such sources in the year to the end of March 2013, the most recent publicly available figures.

The net asset value is likely to make only very modest progress this year to around 400p and the dividend looks ex-growth for a while yet.

He just made a very modest living entertaining people and that's what he's enjoying doing".

I made a very modest memorial garden to my mother just a few days after she died.

"The bill leaves many of the government's most intrusive and overbroad surveillance powers untouched, and it makes only very modest adjustments to disclosure and transparency requirements," he added.

Now, I just want to point out -- and this brings me to the second problem -- when we made a very modest proposal as part of our package, our health care reform package, to eliminate the subsidies going to insurance companies for Medicare Advantage, we were attacked across the board, by many on your aisle, for slashing Medicare.