Sentence examples for modest sliver from inspiring English sources
Just a modest sliver of foie gras, mind you: Alsace and the Midwest are both known for trenchermen, but measured portions are the rule at Everest.
However, even if that 100,000 turns to 200,000 in short order, that's still a modest sliver of the "live" web.
"There's only, like, a small sliver".
There is a small sliver of hope.
Their piece amounted to a sliver of the modest amount that CBS was paying the N.B.A. in those days.
By American standards, the deal is modest and applies only to a sliver of Volkswagen's work force.
Still, B.M.W., which bought Mini's parent in 1994, has stuck cautiously to the big cities since it started selling the car here last month, and its modest success (the car is currently back-ordered) suggests there might be some sliver of appetite left in America for small cars.
This is a mere sliver of what can be achieved with some forethought and willingness to make a modest investment in creating and properly managing your immigration program as part of your recruitment and compliance efforts.
Usually, the bulk of their efforts goes to core; a modest amount goes to what Tuff calls "adjacent moves" that bridge both types of innovation; and a sliver to transformational.
A few minutes' drive away, on a sliver of sand that forms the Lap An Lagoon on the central coast of Vietnam, lies a modest grove of trees – some evergreens that shed a path of soft needles, and where the land meets the sea, Lang Co's few remaining hectares of mangroves, perched above the water upon their stilted, flying buttress-like roots.
