Sentence examples for modest on from inspiring English sources

For Essex to raise the asking rate towards 4½ an over was modest on a good one-day wicket, but reasonable on this frugal strip, and it required a cheeky cameo from Ryan ten Doeschate.

Although modest on an individual basis, the one day reduction of total pregnancy maternal inpatient stay in TC compared to ANC has considerable health system economic implications.

If one does adjust, then the efficiency advantage of balancing is modest on average, but still important in an appreciable fraction of trials with small sample sizes.

She was characteristically modest on Sunday:  "It was just hard to make mistakes," she said.

But the two-CD set is modest on the outside about the total content.

The paintings are relatively modest on the outward journey to Italy.

Just some minor jealousies among 12 boxers living in a crummy building made to look gritty, all fighting to be noticed and promoted by De La Hoya, who plays a modest on-air role.

They both offer their own modest on-site perks for fans who pledge funds to creators.

Rollins batted only.243 last season and had a modest on-base percentage of.323.

However, context had only one modest effect on eye movements.

That was over-modest on his part; for like Beethoven some 200 years later, he soon mastered and exhausted the musical tradition he inherited.