Sentence examples for until a modest from inspiring English sources

Gradually the object of the charity was changed until a modest fee-paying establishment — James Gillespie's School, for boys and girls — came under the benefit of his foundation.

Historic records persisted under the following two dynasties, with particular articulateness in the reign of Pepi I, third king of the 6th dynasty (c. 2325 c. 2150 bce), then subsided until a modest reemergence in the (Theban) Middle Kingdom of the 12th dynasty (1938 c. 1756 bce).

Until the fires this summer, none of the money had been allocated for forest management or controlled burns to reduce the fuel load until a modest $170 million was announced in August after the last round of big fires.

(The expert set, designed by Derek McLane, is a study in the kind of decay that passes unnoticed from day to day, until suddenly a modest home becomes a virtual hovel).

The lightest of any solid element, lithium has, until now, played a modest role in industry.

Mr Obama today ordered federal buildings to fly the US flag at half-mast until Veterans Day November 1111) as a "modest tribute" to the dead at Fort Hood.

Until passage of a modest jobs bill this week, cooperation across the aisle had not been a feature of the current Senate, as Senator Evan Bayh, Democrat of Indiana, complained in announcing he had had enough and wanted out.

Then you must ford a stream and drive, for several minutes, on a rutted, rocky pathway until you reach a modest turf-roofed farmhouse that was built in 1741.

If Eastwood likes a story, he buys or commissions the script, moves rapidly into production, shoots the film on a short schedule and, until recently, on a modest budget.

Typically there is a lag and then the frequency of the favoured allele increases slowly until it reaches a modest frequency after which it is swept quickly to fixation.

Nearly every study of real income shows a rapid rise until 1902 and then a modest increase yearly thereafter.