Sentence examples for modest areas from inspiring English sources

In California, homes in affluent towns lost value in the second quarter while more modest areas posted strong gains.

But it is already clear, in the election campaign now under way, that all three candidates are searching for modest areas of common interest.

Even without the fight over Kyoto, the UN summit is facing all-night negotiating tonight to try to produce even modest areas of agreement.

There is, perhaps, a bitter-sweet irony to the fact that strapped-for-cash farmers have realised they can make money by selling off relatively modest areas - a small-holding can be anything up to 40 acres - to people chasing the rural dream.

Baltimore and Poughkeepsie, N.Y., modest areas in many ways, found their way onto this list with their surprisingly high median incomes of $81,036 and $85,463, respectively, for the same reason that other suburban metros made the top 20: Baltimore is close to Washington, D.C, and Poughkeepsie houses commuters to New York City.

Early experiments with floating petroleum on the sea and igniting it were not entirely successful: the fuel was difficult to ignite, large quantities were required to cover even modest areas and the weapon was easily disrupted by waves.

It is a modest area, maybe one click down the socioeconomic scale from my neighborhood in Sunnyvale.

The refuge was established in 1908 when Teddy Roosevelt declared a modest area of public domain to be a wildlife refuge.

The open frill of other ceratopsians would have provided only poor protection for the neck region and only a modest area of attachment for jaw or neck muscles.

The authorities first went to the scene, a modest area near horse and cattle pastures 60 miles north of Atlanta, after Ms. Peeler called about 3 30 p.m. on Wednesday to ask them to check on her family.

There was a party going on in London E5; a house party in one of the Victorian terraces that line the streets in this modest area of east London.