A modest segment can be either treated as one unit/word or divided into two or more units/words because it is equally comprehensible no matter divided or not; the segment 这是 zhè shì 'this is' in the phrase example is of this type.
In Chinese phrases/sentences, there are three types of non-monosyllabic segments from the point of view of manual word segmentation: ridiculous segments, indivisible segments, and modest segments.
It has been argued that this is not a major issue as the amounts tend to be quite modest for the low-income segment of the population (Guzi 2014) due to tax credit/personal allowance/zero tax rate threshold policies.
They market partially subsidized products and services and charge a modest price to segments of the population with some means, leaving wealthier segments of the population to be served by the commercial sector.
Ms. Charles represents a segment of the island that views modest growth as essential to its survival; the island's population, she said, should be closer to 5,000 people.
"Sully," about the 2009 emergency landing of a US Airways passenger jet, should continue to draw a mature segment of the audience, albeit at a modest rate.
Until recently, the segment of the oldest-old population remained modest (less than 2.3% of the Swiss population in 2009).
The C-terminal segment of crotoxin B, on the other hand, shows a modest difference in the amino acid residues as compared with the C-terminal sequences of other venom PLA2s.
Countries like Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka, however, placed in the middle segment of financially inclusive countries, meaning that these countries had a modest level of financial inclusion that was neither the highest nor the lowest.
