Sentence examples for rather modest number from inspiring English sources

And Greece's net international investment position — the difference between its overseas assets and liabilities — was negative, but only to the tune of 25 percent of GDP, a rather modest number: Yes, Greece was poor and relatively unproductive.

But even as Ms. Merkel said that she had come as a "good friend and a real partner," not a "taskmaster or teacher to give grades," the approximately 40,000 Greeks who took to the streets in protest (a rather modest number, by Greek standards) treated the visit as a provocation by the arch-nemesis in the euro crisis whose austerity medicine is obliterating the Greek middle class.

At the same time, a rather modest number of cytokinesis mutants in Chlamydomonas has been reported [ 25].

An assessment of their stability demonstrates a good to excellent robustness already at a rather modest number of 1,000 to 10,000 random samplings (see Additional file 1).

In any case, because of the rather modest number of informative transmissions (50 allelic transmissions among the 200 available for the 100 trios, and 17 allelic transmissions of the 76 available in the responsive group), our results should be interpreted with caution [ 27], the risk of chance finding being high.

What is behind this rather modest figure?

The number of miRNAs assigned in this study (10) might seem rather modest, but this number has to be evaluated with respect to the total number of miRNAs for which expression was measured in the samples (124).

Cultivation of Pneumocystis organisms in vitro requires a large seed population and supports rather modest increases in organism number for a very limited period of time (17).

The rather modest observed variation in cell number at Day 10 may reflect modulations in cell cycle kinetics (duration of progression through each of the cell cycle stages), as well as the balance between cell survival and cell death.

Although it is difficult to derive quantitative values for the observed clinical changes, these numbers illustrate the rather modest pathological changes associated with schizophrenia, especially with regard to other degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, in which WM spans are in the range of 4 7 s.

Therefore, the genotyping platform needs to be flexible to accommodate new findings, while the number of pertinent SNPs remains rather modest at present.