Sentence examples for modest for example from inspiring English sources

Reports began to appear in global news media portraying an excessive sense of entitlement, with Greeks taking to the streets in protest, even though the increase was modest (for example, women with children or in hazardous jobs would be able to retire with full benefits at just 55, up from 50).

In contrast levels of allozyme diversity and DNA sequence diversity in nuclear DNA do follow the expected pattern, although the differences are modest; for example molluscs have about four-fold more diversity in nuclear loci than mammals [6].

The gains by mixing two or three immunogen are relatively modest: For example for a single immunogen vaccine that gives an average efficacy in the population of 50% and has a fold range of 65 fold, adding a second similar immunogen would increase the overall efficacy to 75%.

Whereas crude risks were more or less as previously reported, Westerlind found that the relative risks were rather modest, for example with a relative risk of 7 for MS siblings 7.

On the other hand, if the relative risk reduction for requiring intubation after use of BiPAP is more modest (for example, 40%), then a sample size of more than 600 patients would be needed to demonstrate such a difference.

γ-Butyrolactones were developed with varying specificities against Pcaf and a Gcn5-like acetyltransferase, although potencies were modest (for example, the Gcn5 inhibitor has an IC50 of 100 μM) and cellular activity remains to be demonstrated.

Fathers with high travel-to-work costs and modest incomes, for example, may be hit hard.

In a more modest house — for example, a $300,000 house with a 30-year mortgage — adding 5percentt for green features would increase mortgage payments by $70 a month.

The modest American College Dictionary, for example, contains some twelve entries for the term, among which appear the following: "something that may be perceived by the senses, especially by sight or touch", and again, "anything that may be presented to the mind: objects of thought".

Individually the variants are of modest effect (for example, increasing risk from 1 to 1.15) and collectively they account for a small proportion of total variance in risk; findings that are of limited diagnostic or prognostic utility.

In many situations, even when animals are housed in identical conditions, feed intake can have modest repeatability, for example, for steers being finished for Korean or Japanese markets, Robinson and Oddy (2001) reported average correlations of 0.19 for daily feed intake on consecutive days and 0.31 for intake on non-adjacent days in the same week.