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2. The rise in federal spending under Obama was pretty modest.

Labor's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Tanya Plibersek, said the $5m the federal government had allocated for humanitarian assistance so far was "pretty modest".

"I think the majority of us recognized that the amount of good, solid science upon which we were making our decisions was pretty modest".

According to the latest numbers from IDC, the global bump was pretty modest for Q3 of this year, at about 7.3-percent, year over year.

It did strike me that Friday's 9% surge in the VIX was pretty modest under the circumstances, and it was a bit of a shock that it closed near the midpoint of its intraday trading range.

"It's pretty modest," she said.

The numbers for Border Force are pretty modest".

I think its effects are pretty modest".

But in both cases the declines have been pretty modest.

That's "pretty modest" employment growth, said Ryan Wang of HSBC.

As national sports milestones go, Haiti's is pretty modest.