Sentence examples for modest businesses from inspiring English sources

They were the kind of relatively modest businesses that allow owners to pay their bills and provide for their families, and that attract a loyal customer base.

The Owenses' other work — funding modest businesses, beginning a program to educate children about the wildlife near their villages — seemed to be paying more impressive dividends.

These sites are the secret survivors who have quietly tried to build more modest businesses in the shadows of the dot-com disasters.

— Sex for sale aside, brothels here tend to be modest businesses: shoddy buildings kept out of sight in rural areas, on the outskirts of town or camouflaged in a thicket of cottonwood trees.

(The Lower East Side?) As an example of the kind of article Bklynr readers might expect, Mr. Rhiel offered Ms. Symonds's 2011 report on the phenomenon of "authentrification" — in which high-priced new commercial establishments take on the aesthetic trappings of the industrial or modest businesses they're displacing.

Spring Valley Village Hall sits in a drab strip mall along with Angel Nails, the Family Dollar discount store, the Caribbean Village restaurant and other modest businesses in this Rockland County village, which has a mix of Hasidic and other Orthodox Jews, Latinos and blacks.

But at least for now, he has some regular – if modest – business.

SOMETIMES a seemingly modest business deal can change the course of an industry.

"The fact that it's turned out to be a modest business is a happy surprise".

Mr. Zardari came from a modest business family that owned a cinema.

As of January he will be liable to a modest business tax of up to 10%.