Economists and the ONS cautioned that this latest improvement in wage growth was only modest.
But a P.M.I. reading above 50 indicates growth while one below 50 demarcates contraction, so the latest data suggest the expansion in August was only modest.
Perhaps no surprise, people generally felt good on the weekend — though for retirees, the distinction between weekend and weekdays was only modest.
Math scores were up slightly but eighth-grade reading showed a decline, and there was only modest progress toward closing the achievement gap between white and minority students, which is one of the Bush administration's primary goals.
XIANGHE, China — The United States and China ended three days of intense economic talks Thursday with accords on food safety, energy and environmental cooperation, but with what Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. acknowledged was only modest progress in opening Chinese financial markets.
Predictive value of procalcitonin levels was only modest.
Although the publisher says use of the new sharing option was only "modest," the free ReadCube option is here to stay.
When the chicken HS4 insulator was integrated into an expression vector surrounded by a reporter gene, the protein was expressed steadily over time, but there was only modest increase of protein expression in CHO-K1 cells (Pikaart et al. 1998; Izumi and Gilbert 1999).
The magnitude of maximal hyperemia in our model was only modest, inducing 50% augmentation in flow, equal to a PFR of 1.5.
We tabulated the GC content of cDNAs in each in these four categories and observe that false negatives were not enriched in cDNAs of high CG content, as might have been expected if they were difficult to copy-Figure 1C and there was only modest depletion of longer cDNAs.
In addition, the correlation coefficient for Mediator targets identified by different subunits was only modest (average 0.33; Table 2), and it is unclear how much of this weak correlation is due to Mediator or to the epitope tag used for all the subunits.
