Sentence examples for the comparatively modest from inspiring English sources

He was given a team of just five staff, which eventually peaked at the comparatively modest 20.

The comparatively modest properties, which include the Litchfield Jail and the Bristol Armory, have attracted little attention.

Judging by the comparatively modest salaries of other backbench MPs' staff, we can only presume McCartney is unusually generous.

He beat Sweden's Stefan Olsson 6-1, 6-4 to claim the title and the comparatively modest £25,000 in prize money.

Despite the comparatively modest number of jobs lost last month, economists found clear signs of widening distress for millions of American workers.

Ms. Wang said that the comparatively modest inflation figures might dissuade the government from quickly raising interest rates, as many analysts have recently forecast.

Rivette then began to become known for the increasing length of his films: Out 1, released in 1971, ran at 770 minutes – over 12 hours – which was followed by the comparatively-modest 192 minutes of what remains probably his most celebrated film, the 1974 release Céline and Julie Go Boating.

Like the novels of Zadie Smith or the empire of Oprah Winfrey, these comparatively modest books about two comedians posit the existence of a post-racist world, if only in the shape of an audience to receive them.

Together, these results suggest that fish swimming at the front of the school gain an energetic advantage relative to swimming alone, but the effect of different ranks within the school is comparatively modest.

Nothing in his off-the-rack suits, or the cafes and nondescript restaurants that he prefers for interviews, or the family's comparatively modest four-bedroom home in suburban Short Hills, N.J., or their two cars (an Acura S.U.V. and a Honda Accord) suggests that wealth has altered the way the family lives.

The other, a comparatively modest proposal based on a scheme put together by the National Commission on Energy Policy for a cap-and-trade system with a price limit of $7 per tonne, was part of an energy-bill amendment initially proposed by Jeff Bingaman, a Democrat, and Pete Domenici, a Republican.