Sentence examples for modest portion of from inspiring English sources

At $46 (including service), a modest portion of veal tenderloin was well over $6 a bite.

The base salary, though, is a modest portion of a manager's compensation, compared with performance bonuses and stock.

They should constitute only a modest portion of a company's overall research program in any given field.

And some companies, even those that get a modest portion of their business from fliers, managed to beat the odds entirely.

Results suggest that SES and CHAOS mediate an independent and significant, but modest, portion of the shared environment for VERBAL and PARCA at Ages 3 and 4.

In the face of such extravagance, diverting a modest portion of the prosperity we produce in common toward services that benefit everyone shouldn't be controversial.

Until recently, all humans had no choice but to eat a healthy diet with modest portions of food that were low in sugar, saturated fat and salt, but high in fiber.

As these inappropriately dubbed "fat cats" tuck into modest portions of healthy food, sipping water or smoothies, it becomes clear that their wealth has not inspired excess - or at least not excessive eating.

I visited Dhaka recently to observe our work on the ground, and saw long lines for modest portions of rice distributed by aid trucks.

Robert Christgau reacted enthusiastically towards the album and wrote that Megadeth garnered "its modest portions of profit and respect" with their latest studio release.

And not a minute too soon--as the Guardian reports today, The Food Climate Research Network at the University of Surrey just released a study declaring that those of us in developed nations "will have to be rationed to four modest portions of meat and one litre of milk a week if the world is to avoid run-away climate change".