Sentence examples for modest than that from inspiring English sources

Valery Gergiev turned 60 earlier this month, an event formally celebrated at the Barbican with a London Symphony Orchestra concert billed as a gala, but which was actually more modest than that.

The thing is, the order is even more modest than that.

The move that Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson made a few weeks ago was more modest than that.

But beyond that his lifestyle is far more modest than that of most expats.

Isn't the 2012 route somewhat less modest than that ahead of the 2008 Beijing Games?

(In fact he's more modest than that; a good Kierkegaardian, he merely says: "I'm in love").

The second is that the renewed drop in oil prices will generate a second "sugar rush" this autumn, albeit a more modest one than that experienced in 2014.

It's a far more modest undertaking than that: more of a darkly comic exercise in the danger of self-fulfilling prophecies and the folly of thinking that being a hard-working A student will offer any sort of protection from the mad vagaries of fate.

For the regiment, expansion was on a more modest scale than that of the Great War.

As previously described (Nolan and Levy, 2006b), we found a significant increase in BrdU incorporation/DAPI in gonadectomized versus sham-operated animals, albeit a more modest one than that induced by E2.

As noted above, the option for an extended infusion appeared to have a more modest impact than that noted with a higher dose coupled with the option for an extended duration.