The phrase "modest chance" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a small or moderate possibility or likelihood of something happening. You can use it in any situation where you want to express a possibility that is not very high or certain. For example: - "There is a modest chance of rain tomorrow, so you might want to bring an umbrella just in case." - "She had a modest chance of winning the competition, but she worked hard and ended up taking first place." - "The job offer comes with a modest chance of promotion in the future, but the starting salary is quite lucrative."
But there is a modest chance that 2014 will bring a general improvement.
"But there is a modest chance that we can bring up some of these issues, like the gun show loophole".
In the Arab world, a misguided belief that things could hardly get worse persuaded us that there was "a modest chance that 2014 will bring a general improvement".
Since the Tories stand a modest chance of winning an overall majority next year, the risks of having an in-out referendum in 2017 are also modest if Nick Clegg holds his nerve.
When there is even a modest chance that a batter will hit a ball towards third base, managers have tended to play a standard defence.In recent years the Tampa Bay Rays, baseball's most innovative franchise, have abandoned this orthodoxy and begun shifting much more aggressively.
Only in Newcastle North do the Liberal Democrats, today's self-styled champions of the people, stand even a modest chance of victory; the party has controlled the city council since 2004.It may be just as well that Mr Levy is unlikely to be lured from his teaching.
Savers would do better to take some modest chances with their fixed-income portfolios.
I have not indicated a specific statistical threshold, but the arguments from uncertainty would suggest that it is reasonable to give weight to at least modest chances of significant harms.
If 153 countries could not agree on a trade deal of fairly modest scope, what chance is there for dealing with the really big global challenges of climate change, nuclear proliferation and the global economic downturn?
All were modest about their chances.
Remaining modest at her chances of shooting in the final squad, Conroy's confident that wheelchair basketball and the Paralympics as a whole will gain the publicity she believes it fully deserves when it comes to the capital next year.
