Sentence examples for modest most of the from inspiring English sources

You'll scold me for that, but by dint of being modest most of the time I allow myself a little party of conceit every now and then".

A12 Newspaper Gains are Modest Most of the big newspaper chains have reported only modest increases in advertising revenue for the second quarter over the comparable period a year earlier.

Gains in attendance were only modest for most of the season, and the Nets were still among the bottom quarter of the N.B.A.'s teams in average attendance.

"The size of the asset classes in question is relatively modest, and most of the investors in these assets are not highly leveraged," he said.

The slowdown is modest, and most of the region, notably India and China, continues to enjoy growth rates that far outstrip those in Europe and the United States.

The survey said that over all, the pressures remained modest, with most of the districts that commented on wages reporting that there was little or no upward pressures or increases.

Elliott says profits for The Rumpus are modest, because most of the money goes towards printing and to paying the letter-writers.

Two-thirds of the photographs from the original exhibition were displayed; as in the original show, they were matted and framed simply and at a modest scale, most of the images not more than eight by ten inches in dimension.

Wildt is modest, giving most of the credit for the successes to his Sudanese colleagues and those that have financed the work, including the University of Chicago and smaller groups such as the Black Student Association (BSA) at the University of Chicago Lab Schools, which raised almost $3,000 for the water filtration project.

Modest growth in most of the state's counties was completely offset by the shrinkage of three urban areas: Hartford, New Haven and New London.

The modest size of most of the rooms and the adequate, but not luxurious, renovated bathrooms reinforce the domestic scale of the early-19th-century middle-class residences.