Sentence examples for modest number from inspiring English sources

It was a modest number, they thought.

There is now what he called "a modest number".

McMaster's troops took a modest number of casualties.

Complain about the (modest) number of class hours requiring attendance.

Westvleteren's popularity has created jobs, albeit a modest number.

A comfortingly modest number missed the deadline or restated earnings.

Instead of a modest number of growers supporting research, all growers will support research.

It is a modest number, to be sure, but Mr. Magliocca is not complaining.

We are adding a modest number of faculty jobs (about 100).

They are asking for more free allowances than the modest number the program already provides.

Some investors – probably a modest number – engage in entrepreneurial activity to the benefit of the UK.