"modestly higher in" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a slight increase in the level or amount of something. Example: The company's profits were modestly higher in the third quarter compared to the previous year.
Indexes in the United States, however, were modestly higher in afternoon trading.
Mr. Braddock: Delivery costs are only modestly higher in the suburbs.
ABC's slim margin of victory was only modestly higher in the age bracket of adults 25 to 54, a demographic the two networks split evenly during the previous week.
"Given how badly we are doing on our employment mandate, we need to be willing to take a risk on inflation going modestly higher in the short run if that is a consequence of policies aimed at lowering unemployment," Mr. Evans said in a recent speech.
What the center finds is a budget outlook that, as I said, isn't great but isn't terrible: It projects that the ratio of debt to G.D.P., the standard measure of America's debt position, will be only modestly higher in 2022 than it is now.
Stocks were modestly higher in midday trading today, lifted by Wal-Mart's wmt better-than-expected earnings and a resurgence in interest for technology stocks.
Use of higher doses of metformin resulted in modestly higher decreases in HbA1c compared with lower doses.
Overall case-fatality rates among males with tuberculosis in India are modestly higher than in females, and postulated reasons for higher mortality among males include differences in treatment adherence, age distribution, smoking behavior, and comorbidities [26], [27], [28].
Quantification of the data in Figure 6A confirmed that HO-1 expression in the SS kidney and liver is significantly elevated, on the contrary, expression in the lung was only modestly higher than in control AS and AA mice (Figure 6B).
That fraction is modestly higher than in other recent primaries; 53 percent of the turnout in the 2008 Republican primary came from the Chicago area, for instance.
It is noteworthy the significantly lower expression of MtGS1b, relatively to MtGS1a and MtGS2a, in most organs and conditions tested, being expressed at modestly higher levels in roots and flowers.
