Sentence examples for only a modest amount from inspiring English sources

It consists of 4,107 acres of mountainous wilderness and only a modest amount of development.

My great-grandmother won the lottery in 1961 — only a modest amount, I'm sad to say.

But it needs to refinance only a modest amount of maturing debt (see chart).

But only a modest amount seems to be done to help the country better withstand the next quake.

Alpha, at present, is generating only a modest amount of power with two sets of small Russian-built solar wings.

Mr. Deery said that the bills would bring in only a modest amount, $250,000 to $500,000.

This compromise is such that worm germ-line stem cells should cycle more slowly than their differentiating counterparts, but only by a modest amount.

Indeed, Egr2 protein expression increased only between days 1 and 2 of differentiation, and then only by a modest amount.

This is why these high rates and high scales, which correspond to the stimulus domain typically excluded by NRC, and are responsible for the differences between NRC and GLM STRFs, only contribute a modest amount to prediction accuracy, as songs contain little power in that space.

An individual genetic factor might only contribute a modest amount to the total variation observed in a trait over the entire population (Carlborg and Haley 2004; Visscher et al. 2008; Manolio et al. 2009).

If plasma leptin is associated with increased mammographic density in breasts only containing a modest amount of fat, however, we would expect the strongest association between plasma leptin concentration and mammographic density in the first stratum of breast fat.