Sentence examples for the very modest from inspiring English sources

They deserve the very modest relief they get.

Failing to meet the very modest expectations of Cancún would have been fatal.

However, there was a huge discrepancy between the whole and the very modest sum of the parts.

First, the disconnect between the ambition of a reinvented national insurance system and the very modest specific proposal.

The very modest Hongpanchang is situated in an easy-to-overlook row of stores along the Montauk Highway.

The very modest numbers of Romanians and Bulgarians coming to work in Britain this year is in stark contrast to the inflammatory rhetoric of earlier this year.

The very modest clean energy provisions in the bill do not outweigh the outrageous taxpayer subsidies for the fossil fuel and nuclear industry.

"It is about our members having to fight just to get the very modest 1% pay award recommended by the NHS Pay Review Body.

Let me give you an example of what the rubbish part of the press don't like about the very modest Royal Charter: equal prominence of apologies.

Certainly there is a long history of this in the US, and there is political will to expand the very modest level of such schemes in the UK.

Administrators said they were "shocked and perplexed" by the accusations, claiming the "very modest" €900,000 annual budget had been stretched a long way.