Sentence examples for were modest to begin from inspiring English sources

Infrastructure is stretched as renters crowd into dwellings that were modest to begin with.

And ARM's share of even that smallish slice may be modest to begin with.

Credit limits tend to be modest to begin with but are often increased by banks over time.

And because they are modest to begin with, they can make only a minimal contribution to America's long-term energy needs.

And given that this was the third "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" on Broadway in just the last decade, audience demand for another staging of the show may have been modest to begin with.

In the case of the slow-walker study, the finding was modest to begin with — only a one-second difference in walking duration between the primed and unprimed students.

However, Meir Stampfer, a nutritionist and epidemiologist also at Harvard's School of Public Health, says the results aren't surprising, because the evidence that overloading on produce would have an additional benefit was modest to begin with.

That is particularly daunting for the advertising and media industries since those forecasts had been rather modest to begin with, because ad spending almost always grows more slowly in a year after an Olympics and a national election.

They did so 48 hours before George Osborne delivered one of the most brutal budgets in history, and that also explains why the BBC's offer was relatively modest to begin with.

Investors decided that expectations for an oil output deal had been very modest to begin with, said Eric Wiegand, senior portfolio manager at U.S. Bank Wealth Management.

Costumes are modest to a fault.