Sentence examples for were rather modest from inspiring English sources

Initially, expectations were rather modest for the literary future of Captain Underpants when he first emerged in the adult world in 1997.

"I used to observe that my close female friends would choose — very reasonably — men whose aspirations were rather modest," she told me.

After transforming the Thurgood Marshall School in Seattle, Wright moved to Philadelphia to work on the district's single-sex programs, and the results were rather modest, a fact Wright attributes to working both with middle- and high-school students and with less-engaged teachers.

Both increasing the chain length and β-substituent probably resulted in that (Z -citral (14a) and (E)-citral (15a) were rather modest substrates for OYE2p with 0.28 and 0.31 U/mg, respectively.

In the ML phase, transcript changes were rather modest, comparing with changes in LL and S phases, with AF/THY ratios rarely exceeding 10-fold.

As the recorded differences in single gene expressions were rather modest in general, we performed a Gene Set Enrichment Analysis [13] to identify globally affected metabolic pathways.

Its overall surplus is rather modest.

But in substance, the change may be rather modest.

Its current-account surplus did soar from 2005 onwards but until then was rather modest.

By today's standards, Mr. Fogel said, that is rather modest.

Warnock herself is rather modest about her philosophical talents, but had a very successful career.