Sentence examples for modest except for from inspiring English sources

The cost of production is not usually a prime concern and capital investment is generally modest, except for watches.

Rice- and wheat-price increases have been modest, except for high-quality imports, a small share of domestic consumption.

And the theme, built around tributes to California, is modest except for an occasionally unintentional ghost-town atmosphere: The park draws about 6 million visitors a year, a trickle compared with the 15 million who swarm Disneyland.

The jacket appeared in every way modest, except for the buttonholes and the endless amounts of topstitching, which, for those in the know, show that a garment is handmade.

However, the upregulation of these mRNAs in miR-142 is generally modest except for Cfl1.

Since 1993, changes in NHIS have been relatively modest, except for a sharp drop in 1997 coinciding with a major redesign of the survey, which preserved the exact wording but relocated the self-rated health question within the survey.

All the company's other segments showed modest improvements except for the book publishing division, which showed a small decline in operating profit.

For the recent 5-year period under investigation, a trend towards improvement in survival was seen for most subgroups assessed, which was though rather modest and, except for age group 65-74 years, not statistically significant.

Changes of 25 nutrients in adults followed for 17 years were modest (≤15%) except for alcohol, vitamin C, retinol, pyridoxine, and copper in both sexes as well as carotene and thiamine in women.

Their apartment was modest and unremarkable, except for the eight hundred and twenty-two thousandollarsrs in cash that investigators found hidden in the wall.

The teeth are modest in size except for the relatively large front teeth, which were wearing down quickly.