Sentence examples for modest extent from inspiring English sources

It certainly will do that, to a modest extent.

Dail deputies are targeted to a modest extent, sharing in the cuts to public sector pay.

To that modest extent, there has been progress of a kind.

Milk composition was not affected by either dietary treatment, but the fatty acid (FA) composition of milk fat varied to a modest extent.

It can be credibly said that the fourth estate is close to being a state within the state, unregulated except to the modest extent that it chooses to regulate itself and alternately feared and pandered to by public figures".

Mr. Fellowes, 52, said he grew up "to a modest extent" in the upstairs world of the end of the empire, so he was doing daily duty as the on-set etiquette police.

To a small extent, the modest severity of baseline symptoms on the study day may also reflect a selection bias away from the most severely affected patients: two mood fluctuation patients who came to the PET suite to participate were unable to do so, one due to marked off-period anxiety and the other due to severe off-period neck flexor dystonia.

Despite its modest cost and ease of implementation, this approach improves the reliability only to a small extent, which is not desirable, especially for large-scale systems.

Owing to the modest spatial extent of the network, only the translational components of the reference frame error were estimated.

With the exception of the type 2 outbreak in Nigeria, most outbreaks have been relatively modest in extent, with fewer than 50 reported confirmed paralytic cases.

Smith is modest – to an extent that has become annoying for his daughter.