The phrase "modest modifications to" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: The company made some modest modifications to the product design in response to customer feedback.
IT might seem only a modest modification to a Web site.
The redesigns reported here comprise modest modification to the original designs for CKM E921) to accommodate the change in beam flux, momentum, and momentum bite of the primary beam.
NASA lifted the freeze the following year, but it was allowed to spend a relatively modest $100 million a year on "minor modifications" to the shuttle, the report said.
Every new iteration has brought small modifications to the space.
PEG-mediated transformation was reported to be ineffective [but later shown to require only modest modifications of the existing protocol (Oelgeschläger and Rother 2009)], but cationic liposomes could be used to transform Methanosarcina species (Metcalf et al. 1997).
Modest modifications of facility records and registers (as needed) to remind providers to implement and record best practices and to permit monthly calculation of quality of care indicators by facility teams (e.g. local rubber stamp to imprint AMTSL/ENC check-off boxes in partogram; insertion of columns in registers to track postpartum vital signs of mother and newborn).
Unfortunately, despite the widespread publication of recommendations over the last decade and some modest modifications in the pattern of antibiotic utilization (61), the willingness of French general practitioners to change their antibiotic-prescribing habits has been at best grudging and at worst nonexistent (29, 67).
But many of them fear that party leaders may instead opt for only modest modifications.
But Mr. Martens said that existing treatment sites for nonhazardous waste are more plentiful and could safely handle wastewater from drilling with "modest" modifications in their operations.
