Sentence examples for modest at least from inspiring English sources
The discovery that spurred Dr. Stevenson's imaginings is more modest, at least on the surface.
The regulatory efforts, though modest at least initially, are politically incendiary, and they could very well get held up.
That has helped keep pay raises modest, at least in comparison with those in the United States.
His own fees are modest, at least by American standards, ranging from nothing to 45 pounds (roughly $75).
It helped that the all-inclusive rate was relatively modest, at least compared with other ranches I looked into.
The houses would be modest, at least by Hamptons standards, with no more than 4,500 square feet.
(In 1970 Clive Barnes wrote in The New York Times that the troupe's standards never drop below "at least modest accomplishment").
The price for all the renovations, like the apartment itself, seems relatively modest — $180,000 — at least for a gallery owner.
In Bush's case, these sounded moderate and modest — or, at least, they sounded that way to people who were inclined to hear them that way.
His postwealth quarters are modest, but at least a level better than those that Morgan Freeman's trainer character inhabited in the gym in "Million Dollar Baby".
The wedding was a national extravaganza, but afterward Elizabeth, now the Duchess of York, settled in relatively modest circumstances, at least by royal standards.
