Sentence examples for modest fluctuations from inspiring English sources

On July 15th, the lead story in the "Times" concerned some rather modest fluctuations in the value of the dollar against the mark and the franc.

According to Blanchard et al. (2013, p. 10), such flexibility has two dimensions: a low average unemployment rate and modest fluctuations in the unemployment rate in response to shocks.

Temple Israel experienced modest fluctuations in membership during the 1990s and 2000s, and approximately half the Jews attending services in Memphis worshiped there.

We extended the original criterion by examining changes in CT values over time following treatment so as to determine whether modest fluctuations presented with sporadic directional swings consistent with 'noise' as opposed to trends in contiguous data points consistent with biological effects on gene expression.

When comparing within-person changes between the baseline and after the intervention in each group separately, only modest fluctuations of the lipid levels were found in the control group, as revealed by the volcano plot (Figure 2C), and none of the changes were found significant after adjusting for multiple comparisons using FDR.

In keeping with Nox activity, finely controlled, modest fluctuations of the cellular redox status have been shown to be capable of reversible modulation of signalling cascades.

Why invest in the production of goods and services which offer a modest return over a long period, when you can place bets on minor fluctuations in prices for all manner of financial devices invented for the sole purpose of quickly generating higher than average returns?

Post chip RNA quality profiles themselves should display inter-chip set correlation if the input of original sample quality is constitutive and sample processing introduces modest random fluctuations.

A relatively mild, late Pleistocene climate in subtropical East Asia [ 4] and available glacial refugia in continental land bridges [ 9] could have alleviated demographic stresses during the Pleistocene glaciations, which in turn generated relatively modest population fluctuations in E. formosa.

Until dysnatremia is shown to be a non-causal biomarker of a harmful underlying systemic process [ 6], it may be prudent to assume that even modest sodium fluctuations and attendant osmotic shifts are inherently undesirable, and that refined control of plasma sodium levels offers scope for better outcomes.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07794.013 Interestingly, NRX1, NRX3pan, and NRX3alpha showed only modest protein level fluctuations across the brain regions examined.