Sentence examples for were often modest from inspiring English sources

A systematic review of housing improvement and relocation found outcomes varied by study and intervention and were often modest (Thomson et al., 2013).

I would say I don't have expectations beyond the current pain... (Harry, acupuncture patient, Seattle) However, expectations regarding pain relief were often modest.

And the initial payoff is often modest.

His buildings are often modest and understated.

NOBEL prizewinners are often modest about their achievements.

Despite the widespread use of pharmacological and/or interventional reperfusion therapies, recovery of cardiac function in myocardial infarction (MI) patients is often modest or even absent.

Many are staffed, in whole or in part, by teachers who are not voting members of the faculty, and the programs are often modest.

Its needs are often modest: a new set of teams to bring isolated groups together, some communications tools, a small budget for periodic face-to-face meetings.

As a profession we have also been guilty – unwittingly or otherwise – of exaggerating the benefits of medications often perceived as magic pills by patients when their benefits are often modest at best.

Her voice is self-possessed yet unguarded, and it hovers in arrangements that are often modest — just a handful of musicians playing together in a room — but can also proffer gleaming instrumental hooks and nonsense syllables that invite singalongs.

All of that, though, requires setting aside what we actually know about the Russian activity on Facebook and Twitter: It was often modest, heavily dissociated from the campaign itself and minute in the context of election social media efforts.