Sentence examples for modest lot from inspiring English sources

We have a modest lot, slightly more than a third of an acre, on the outskirts of Boston.

They were a modest lot, compared with Bordeaux and Burgundy collectors, fueled not so much by a competitive instinct as a desire to share and enjoy.

Either way, one result is generally a huge house shoehorned onto a modest lot, dwarfing the houses of neighbors, who complain bitterly about lost privacy, light and ambience.

Crude oil futures for February delivery hit $100 on the New York Mercantile Exchange shortly after noon when a single trader bid up the price by buying a modest lot and then selling it immediately at a small loss.

Bordering a rambling home on a modest lot, the rectangular plot sports a knot garden of box, variegated box and lavender cotton; a reflecting pool behind a yew hedge, and 40 varieties of plants that bloom from February through November.

Paul Chevedden, a professor at Central Washington University, entertained a group at the bar one night this year with a presentation entitled: "Climax at Long Range: The Male Member and the Crusades", an examination of the phallic nature of the catapult.For all this, the medievalists are a basically modest lot.

What it has to offer is more practical: easy access to major highways, lots of modest houses on equally modest lots and a competitive property tax rate.

At Christie's South Kensington, bidders operating on the Internet from Istanbul were competing even for the most modest lots.

But the resulting neighborhood — big houses squeezed onto modest lots — could earn it a label as overdeveloper.

"Renting seems like such a waste," she said, of the modest house on a small lot in the eastern Red Hook section of the island that could be hers to own for slightly more than $1 million.

But in Rye -- in contrast to northern Westchester -- most of the recent high-end sales have involved teardowns of modest houses on small lots, Ms. Neuman said.