Sentence examples for modest particularly from inspiring English sources

By comparison with the asking price, the annual maintenance fee of $464,600 seems almost modest, particularly since the services of a uniformed housekeeper and houseman are included.

But the effort was too modest, particularly in the area of Web video, says Steve Wadsworth, president of the Walt Disney Internet Group.

In fact, the political profiles of the eight, by and large, are so modest, particularly statewide, that detractors, some of them Democrats, refer to them as "the eight dwarfs".

Mr. Poor's sunflowers are plain and modest — particularly compared to the famed, visionary-manic versions painted by Vincent van Gogh — as is the arrangement of assorted flowers in the foreground of Mr. Cikovsky's "Still Life at Wooley Pond" (circa 1945), a local body of water.

Some rewards are huge, others modest, particularly when compared with the damage wrongdoers have done.

However, the effect varied considerably and was often modest, particularly when instruction-based interventions were used [22].

Built in 1994, it underwent a relatively modest upgrade — particularly its heating and cooling systems — before receiving the LEED gold award in January.

The good news is that the smoke and mirrors are there not to conceal the true cost of extravagant promises, but to make a modest, not particularly exciting plan sound like something more.

"This reflects the concern raised by the public about rising house prices increasingly leading to estates with a modest house particularly in London and the south-east paying inheritance tax".

Interventions to prevent excessive gestational weight gain and promote postpartum weight loss have yielded modest results, particularly in overweight and obese women.

This allowed for only modest improvements, particularly for the installation of anti-torpedo bulges.