Sentence examples for only modestly less from inspiring English sources

Hundreds of stations supply compressed gas in a few states like California, New York and Arizona, but most are either closed to the public or charge only modestly less than regular gasoline prices.

By 22, I was only modestly less of a music idiot (I skipped a small-venue Nirvana show because I had a paper due), but at least I'd seen the Pogues fronted by Shane McGowan and the Pixies before they broke up.

President Barack Obama's new budget, to be released Monday, forecasts two consecutive years of near $160 billion in war funding, far more than he hoped when elected and only modestly less than the last years of the Bush Administration.

Thus, Republican congressmen, senators and governors -- even staunch, principled conservatives -- developed the instinct to propose only modestly less statist policies than Democrats did (as, for example, George W. Bush's Medicare Part D subsidies for drugs).

Moreover, we identify a previously unrecognized class of mRNA whose levels decline only modestly (less than 2-fold) during lytic growth.

Although a few hundreds of genes are affected only modestly (less than two-fold) by Jmjd3 deletion, a handful of genes show a higher dependence on Jmjd3 for their expression, as exemplified by Ccl5 and IL12b (which mediate recruitment and Th1 polarization of T lymphocytes, respectively).

Hydromorphone was only modestly more potent (less than two-fold) than either hydrocodone or oxycodone, which is inconsistent with prior estimates arising from analgesic studies.

Although restricting very expensive drugs is certainly understandable and necessary, the impact on care of restricting drugs that are only modestly more expensive is less justified.

If a transcript is more abundant in filaments than in vegetative cells, and yet this transcript is only modestly more abundant―or even less abundant―in heterocysts than in filaments, the heterocyst level of that transcript is likely under-represented in our experiments (examples, including nitrogenase [ nif1] transcripts, are presented below).

For most of the last 1,000 years the earth's temperature varied only modestly, moving slowly up or down by less than one degree Fahrenheit.

HSV-2 0Δ104 was only modestly attenuated, and formed plaques 12-fold less efficiently in Vero cells treated with IFN-β relative to ICP0+ L7 cells (Fig. 2C).