Sentence examples for modest top from inspiring English sources
The engine generated 20 horsepower and propelled the car to modest top speeds of 40 45 miles per hour (65 70 km/h).
Which is not as much of a problem as one might expect, given the Baker's lofty driving position and modest top speed of 25 miles an hour.
Buttler, replacing the rested Eoin Morgan at the scene of his record-breaking 46-ball one-day international century a week ago, won the toss only for James Vince's 38 to prove England's modest top score.
The war ended before the squadron could go into action, but the RNAS had already used torpedoes dropped from Short seaplanes to sink enemy ships in the Mediterranean, and the Cuckoo, with its modest top speed of 103 miles (166 km) per hour and endurance of four hours, heralded the eventual demise of the battleship in the face of air-power dominance at sea.
Kanga, the first Wally Ace, a new 26-meter pocket-superyacht design, is powered by a low-noise, low-vibration, low-consumption propulsion system that yields a modest top speed of 12 knots — but can cruise 5,000 nautical miles, or more than 9,200 kilometers, on a single 14,000-liter tankful of diesel.
The Traction Avant was not built to a radical spec sheet: targets were set for a modest top speed of 100kph (62mph), and 10 litres of fuel consumed for every 100km travelled.
"Even with modest top-line growth we can show very attractive net income growth," said Thomas Patrick, Merrill's chief financial officer.
The audience surely found wisdom in his lyrics, but the greatest insights were purely musical, emanating from Mr. Cockburn's graceful guitar work, and his interplay with his astoundingly modest, top-notch accompanists, the bassist Steve Lucas and the drummer Ben Riley.
They dress pretty much like students at any explicitly religious American school, in a style you could call modern modest, topped off with hijabs for most of the women and kufis for some of the men.
Even at Roberto Cavalli's secondary line, Just Cavalli, a brand known for flashy femininity, there were brown and mustard polo necks and cuban collars, although in Cavalli's world no woman would ever want to cover up entirely so these modest tops were teamed with revealing lacy panels and miniskirts.
If MCI's growth rate diminishes to single digits, WorldCom's EBITDA multiple will be halved, from 12 to 6. Six times EBITDA is a good working multiple for a communications property with modest top-line growth.The stock goes down but doesn't collapse.
