Sentence examples for modest period from inspiring English sources

Holland-Kaye said the airport was entering a more modest period for investment, unless approval was granted for a new third runway.

Other than that, there is nothing to stop firms paying off staff based on a legal minimum, including a notice period, that is so meagre it provides little insurance cover against even a modest period out of work.

In 1987 "Dirty Dancing," a modest period piece, set in the early 60's, about a young woman's liberation during a summer at a Catskills resort, took the entire country by surprise and surpassed more heavily promoted movies at the box office.

After that relatively modest period of creation, the artist would increase his output drastically, making sometimes 20 posters a year.

Consistent with these observations, excess Zn caused a modest period lengthening that was rescued by supplying additional Fe in the medium.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02510.028 The hepatic core clock remained fully functional and showed only modest period lengthening of free-running rhythms (on average by 40 min) in Dicer knockout liver explants.

Finally, it is possible that under the conditions used, in vitro passaging at least for modest periods does not select for less virulent variants that multiply less vigorously or fail to survive after animal infection.

Even modest periods of untreated psychosis cause distress and disruption to individuals and their families.

Their point was that environments will not keep changing forever and that conservation biology is rather concerned with population survival over modest periods of time (e.g., 50 generations).

Koob and Moal [ 1] depicted the process of addiction as a downward spiral with initially drug taking being maintained by drug-induced euphoria, which is followed by modest periods of negative affect (i.e., post-intoxication crashes) and relatively normal function in between intoxication events.

Administration officials, however, say such a move would amount to a modest grace period bought at extravagant and wasteful expense.