Sentence examples for modest pile from inspiring English sources

Mr. Katz does supply some savagely funny dialogue and a modest pile of tasty theatrical in-jokes.

Aldo is electrified by the tall tales of a dredger captain he meets, who says he made a modest pile working in Venezuela.

Admittedly, you may feel that you don't have space for even a modest pile of carrot peelings, let alone a Hollywood-style, custom-built, triple-chambered rotating hot composter.

His family fretted that he would lose the modest pile he’d made.

The graves are gray, too, modest piles of small stones fenced off from one another.

But determined he is, so much so that he's willing to make mountains out of rather modest piles of earth.

Unfortunately, most OAV items were not only positively skewed and kurtotic, but also showed a strong piling up of values at the lower end of the scale (39% of zero values on average and 71% at the most) and a modest piling up of values at the upper end of the scale (6% of values on average and 27% at the most; see Table S1 for the distributional characteristics of each item).

Lord Weinstock never showed any sign of returning to shareholders the pounds 2.5bn cash mountain accumulated during his reign at GEC, but Mr Sugar is returning Amstrad's more modest pounds 200m cash pile to investors.

Rescue teams who arrived here were shocked to find block after block of modest houses reduced to piles of dirt and rubble.

Bill Gates, No. 2, and Warren Buffett, No. 3, both added a more modest $3 billion to their piles and are now worth $56 billion and $50 billion, respectively.

However, using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, the chance of detecting the presence of scour from the output frequencies is improved significantly and even modest scour depths of 0.25 pile diameters can be detected.