Sentence examples for of extremely modest from inspiring English sources

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The campus has ancient trees and old stone buildings and new science labs and one street of extremely modest stores.

The defense tried to rattle him by bringing up what seemed to be a recent history of extremely modest drug use — occasionally marijuana and less often Ecstasy, "at a particular dance venue," as the witness put it, with courtroom formality.

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Members go through a five-year training period and agree to serve on extremely modest salaries.

The connotation is too grandiose for many of these extremely modest places, though the original French sense of the word -- from the verb "restore" -- is perfectly apt, since workers in the area tend to drop in for quick bites from dawn to dusk.

What detonated the violence was the belated announcement of an extremely modest severance package for the laid-off workers.

Reading Piero Selvaggio's account of its extremely modest beginnings -- and his own, in Sicily -- makes the refinement of the food he has created seem all the more amazing.

Indeed, in writing the ban, little thought seemed to have been given to the country's 800 water-pipe tea houses, most of them extremely modest enterprises owned by ethnic Arabs.

Far from seeing the effect of the extremely modest 1% wage rise that is on the cards across the sector, or any benefit from the much-hyped "national living wage", most of them will suffer a pay cut and the rest will get an increase measured in pennies.

But I was taken seriously aback when I walked out of the Center with him and his entourage and the ebullient Mr. Adams popped open the passenger side of my extremely modest car, pushed back the seat to accommodate his long legs, and waved his companions (read: body guards) into a separate car, instructing them to follow us.

Compared with that of UBS, it is extremely modest, with only 200 or so works of art, bought collectively for around £200,000.

Olympus does not, however, want people to think of the W-10's camera, which has an extremely modest resolution of 300,000 pixels, as a substitute for the company's cameras, whose resolution is measured in pixels by the million.

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