Sentence examples for were too modest from inspiring English sources
But Hilger discovered that the improvements in educational attainment were too modest to explain how Asians' earnings grew so fast.
Originally Clegg said Cameron's aims were unachievable, he said, and now Clegg was saying the goals were too modest.
In contrast to most prior literature, our econometric results confirm the engineering estimates, even suggesting the engineering estimates were too modest.
Needless to say, The Economist's site is useful, easy to use and good to look at, but we were too modest to include it in the top five.
"Until now, though, all of our spaces were too modest to reveal the full eloquence of these artists' works, which is something that we must now discover".
Senate leaders are using those savings to address the concerns of anxious members from across their caucus who complained that the tax plan's benefits for the middle class were too modest compared with benefits received by the wealthy and corporations.
