Sentence examples for modest fractions from inspiring English sources

Queen Martha led early, setting modest fractions.

Congaree's jockey Victor Espinoza stalked the flank of front-running Richly Blended through modest fractions of 23.11 seconds for a quarter mile and 46.12 for a half mile without asking the colt for much effort.

Under the jockey Richard Migliore, the 9-1 shot loped through modest fractions and won by a length and a quarter over another who wasn't given much chance: Wander Moon sent off at odds of better than 40-1.

John Velazquez had guided his colt through modest fractions of 47.98 for a half-mile and 1 12.28 for six furlongs, but the colt had nothing left in the stretch.

War Emblem drained any drama from the race after setting modest fractions of 47.04 seconds for the half-mile and 1 11.75 for three-quarters of a mile and became the first gate-to-wire winner since the filly Winning Colors in 1988.

The markets were up more modest fractions.

The Ahdab oil field represents only a modest fraction of Iraq's oil wealth — the field is expected to produce 90,000 barrels of oil a day.

The cost of redoing these piers would be about $70 million, a modest fraction of the $1.2 billion provided earlier by Washington to help revive the city.

The core stream, with some modest fraction of the gas horsepower remaining (not extracted to drive the fan) proceeds directly to its own exhaust nozzle.

Why would you be willing to work so hard and take so much risk for only a modest fraction of ownership?

The employees own virtually 100 percent of the company (there are a few advisers who are also shareholders and I myself own only a fairly modest fraction of it).