Sentence examples similar to modestly surpasses from inspiring English sources
Over the coming decade, he says, Berkshire's gains will probably only modestly surpass those of the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index.
The Hewlett-Packard Company supplied reassuring evidence yesterday that its business was back on track when it reported quarterly sales and profits that modestly surpassed Wall Street's expectations.
Best-selling does not a classic make; "Babbitt" eventually outsold "Main Street" and comes closer to being a contemporary classroom standard, though far surpassed in that regard by a modestly successful short novel of 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby".
Paris could probably count close to 200,000 inhabitants by the late 13th century, and some great provincial centres e.g., Toulouse, Bordeaux, Arras, Rouen may have surpassed 25,000, but most of the older cities grew more modestly.
HP says it will "substantially" surpass consensus estimates for earnings of 16 cents per share, that revenue will be up "modestly," and that gross margins have improved.
noticeably, even if modestly.
The Youlds lived modestly.
