"modest percentage" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used in sentences where the speaker wants to describe a small or not significant amount or proportion of something. Here is an example: Only a modest percentage of the population was able to attend the concert, as the tickets were quite expensive.
Oil-spill cleanups are considered successful if they remove a modest percentage of the oil.
The legislature's health committee chairman, Jeffrey Toback, said the deficits were a modest percentage.
Though the sales make up a modest percentage of the business, they are growing.
Even this modest percentage surprises me, because only about 2 percent of American households report income above this amount.
Homestead benefits vary widely, from a modest percentage reduction in the assessed value of property to its full market value.
Senator Olympia J. Snowe, Republican of Maine, said the $80 billion commitment amounted to "a modest percentage" of national spending on prescription drugs.
The standard ROP policy has no cash value other than the right to exit early with these modest percentages refunds.
Even if they turn to religion in more modest percentages than older people have in the past, the impact they make, given their numbers, will be enormous.
In regards to civil unions, 19percentt are somewhat supportive, while 14percentt of Poles are very supportive, modest percentages compared to the 20percentthatareare somewhat against and 40percentthatareare completely against civil same-sex cohabitation.
The existence of hypoxia-tolerant cells in more modest percentages within a larger population of predominantly hypoxia-sensitive cells could also have a clinically relevant impact.
The associate dean wrote Your Money Or Your Life, in which he advocated a modest idea: that a small percentage of Medicare payments should be based on performance, thereby pushing the system in the direction of better value.
