1. He charged a relatively modest fee.

2. Hollywood's favourite actor was modest about his latest triumph.

3. The result reflects a modest rightward shift in opinion.

4. Might I make a modest suggestion?

5. He is modest in his behavior.

6. He's a very modest man.

7. She is modest without being coy.

8. The research was carried out on a modest scale.

9. They live in modest comfort.

10. You should be more modest.

11. Though very intelligent[ ], she is nevertheless rather modest.

12. He is a very modest person.

13. She is very modest about the prizes she has won.

14. They live in a fairly modest house, considering their wealth.

15. She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge that she had come a very long way since those early days.

16. He was always modest about his role in the Everest expedition.

17. Be modest in learning , for complacency is the enemy of study.

18. A one-night stay in a modest hotel costs around ￡35.

19. The FTSE index staged a modest recovery to be 6.5 points down.

20. He's a modest, mild-mannered man, without a trace of self-importance.

21. She's very modest about her success.

22. He was modest to the point of self-effacement.

23. His modest business eventually expanded into a supermarket empire.

24. He is modest about his achievements.

25. Really great men are essentially modest.

26. Our requirements seem fairly modest.

27. He was modest and diffident about his own success.

28. He was typically modest about his achievements.

29. The price is very modest.

30. The more a man knows, the more he is inclined to be modest. 

1. He charged a relatively modest fee.

2. Hollywood's favourite actor was modest about his latest triumph.

3. The result reflects a modest rightward shift in opinion.

4. He is modest in his behavior.

5. He's a very modest man.

6. She is modest without being coy.

7. The research was carried out on a modest scale.

8. They live in modest comfort.

9. You should be more modest.

10. She is very modest about the prizes she has won.

11. They live in a fairly modest house, considering their wealth.

12. She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge that she had come a very long way since those early days.

13. He was always modest about his role in the Everest expedition.

14. Be modest in learning , for complacency is the enemy of study.

15. A one-night stay in a modest hotel costs around ￡35.

16. He's a modest, mild-mannered man, without a trace of self-importance.

17. Really great men are essentially modest.

18. Be modest when you are on the crest of the wave.

19. He is looking to improve on his admittedly modest achievements so far.

20.

31. She had saved a modest amount of money.

32. He's very modest about his achievements.

33. The new service proved a modest success .

34. Just a modest portion for me, please.

35. Initial failure was followed by unexpected, if modest, success.

36. He's modest, as well as being a great player.

36.

37. Many people become conceited after only modest success.

38. He was paid a modest emolument.

39. The democratic reforms have been modest.

40. There was a modest rise in high-street spending last month.

41. Last year there was only a modest gain in earnings.

42. It doesn't do to be too modest. You can pass a lot of business up that way.

43. Asian women are more modest and shy, yet they tend to have an inner force.

44. The party made modest gains in the elections, but nothing like the huge gains that were predicted.

45. A series of arrows points the way to the modest grave of Andrei Sakharov.

46. This modest group size allows our teachers to respond to the needs of each student.

47. She was a modest girl, always keeping covered, even in summer.

48. We should be happy to buy it for a modest sum.

49. Though his background was modest, it was in no sense deprived.

50. The car has enjoyed modest success since its launch, but the Mark 2 version is expected to be far more popular.

51. He made a name for himself in science, but he remained modest.

52. There has been a modest decrease in house prices this year.

53. Swiss unemployment rose to the still modest rate of 0.7%.

54. There has been a modest upturn in most parts of the industry.

55. It has never been the boast of a modest person that he alone could accomplish such a hard task.

56. A modest scholar never professed to have exhausted his subject.

57. They lived in a modest semi-detached house in the suburbs.

58. There has been a modest improvement/recovery in housing conditions for the poor.

59. Even the relatively modest sum of ￡50,000 now seems beyond his reach.

60. Others will tell you that she is modest to a fault, funny, clever and warm.

61. I knew him as a hard-working, modest, and honest politician.

62. The firm will be able to service debt and still turn a modest profit.

63. The average cost of a full three-course meal - appetizer, main course and dessert - including tip and a modest wine is about $25.

64. Be modest when you are on the crest of the wave.

65. You're too modest! You've been a huge help to us.

66. Wearing the county tie was a mark of modest social distinction.

67. He is looking to improve on his admittedly modest achievements so far.

68. A modest congregation sat underneath on benches.

69. Loans between banks also entailed modest capital requirements.

70. I.,[sentencedict .com] has catered mainly to tourists with modest bankrolls.

71. Scenic walks are included in the modest daily rate.

72. It was a modest but comfortably furnished room with a divan, low tables and large leather cushions on the floor.

73. Modest chain-link fences have existed for some time in the border cities of El Paso and Brownsville, Texas.

74. The normally modest Baldwin is confident of victory in this year's Senate race.

75. Even modest elevations of sea level therefore can threaten many major population centers.

76. Surely no-one in Castlereagh would begrudge a modest investment in proper safe, clean and comfortable working accommodation for their public servants?

77. But a deep distrust of government by many lawmakers almost ensures a modest response, or none at all.

78. Glover was genial, modest, and always eager to improve himself.

79. Before the end of the Interregnum he had amassed a modest fortune and had begun styling himself gentleman.

80. But it is important to put the achievement in a suitably modest context.

81. Next they approved all the recommendations regarding customer service and quality although they cautioned that the budget for training would be modest.

82. Highly suitable for a small children's collection with modest funds for annual updating of stock. 8.

83. Strasbourg was also the birthplace of the modest first Calvinist psalter in 1539.

84. As Prime Minister he accepted the resignation of his Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1958 rather than agree to modest public expenditure cuts.

85. He was more modest than I'd given him credit for.

86. There were far more profitable houses to burgle within a stone's throw of her own modest establishment.

87. Their requests were modest; they merely asked him to broaden his entourage, and they even offered to serve him.

88. Even small independents are getting in on the act in a modest way, though.

89. Though individual programs do have some admissions standards, they are typically modest.

90. Despite his lineage and academic qualifications, Denholm was modest and retiring to a fault.

91. Our industry can create new markets and opportunities with a modest investment in language initiatives.

92. You can take modest calcium supplements if your urine calcium levels are not elevated.

93. Always self-deprecating and modest, he fought bravely a long struggle against cancer, remaining cheerful and full of amusing unrepeatable anecdotes.

94. One gets on better in life if one is not over modest. Anne Frank 

95. While others had comparatively modest ambitions, her heart was set on becoming a star.

96. I was even earning enough to support myself in modest comfort.

97. A modest journal article might have produced for the author a significant learning experience.

98. Grant and co-star Julianne Moore provide only modest charm as the couple expecting their first baby.

99. One fine day, this innocent tigress is suddenly tamed by a modest teacher who teaches her to read.

100. Till then, Antonescu earns a modest dollar from his bootleg memory bullets.

101. Stay ahead by deploying modest quantities of state-of-the-art aircraft, to dogfight over Arizona.

102. Even these modest broadcasts show only the best of the bunch.

103. Bond prices were little changed in modest trading and the dollar was mixed in a muted session.

104. He was a modest and unassuming man who never gave the impression that he knew all the answers.

105. Even the highest-ranking government bureaucrats generally live in modest government-owned housing.

106. Belle-Ile, however, seems to belong to a past era of modest and amateur tourism.

107. Yet the aid package passed in an instinctively isolationist Congress with only a modest handful of dissenters.

108. The latest addition to the modest skyline ... the ecumenical church.

109. The country had been emancipated from thirteen years of middle-level Conservative rule of reasonable efficiency, modest dynamism but small-power idealism.

110. The liberal democrats wanted a more modest overspend ... seven million.

111. Austin agreed and I began work on my first, very modest contribution to deep-sea research.

112. My flaky judgments were modest by comparison-but numerous enough to keep me hopeful of regaining the dunce cap this year.

113. But the dividend income is relatively modest, and coming from abroad they are not a tax-efficient source of income.

114. With many excises however, modest price increases have little or 00 effect on sales.

115. Born in Swansea of modest entrepreneurial stock, he had a happy childhood, and he recreates its pleasures well.

116. Modest, kind or optimistic people often smile more than snobbish, unkind or pessimistic people. Dr T.P.Chia 

117. This will considerably help cash Mow problems for new haulage firms and hauliers still operating at a modest turnover.

118. A powerful coalition of committed advocates will, in this way, emerge out of those modest coalitions that exist today.

119. Such techniques are not available to middle-class families with modest savings, or to small business owners holding long-term capital gains.

120. She would still have a spare bedroom, quite enough for the modest entertaining she proposed to do in her widowed state.

121. Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. Jules Renard 

122. Along the tunnel there exist a few modest zones of safety.

123. But beyond those modest crumbs of comfort there is disagreement.

124. Cahoot, Abbey National's online arm, comes top of the heap with a very modest 8 per cent APR.

125. It is a medium to low cost technology requiring modest training depending on its ultimate application.

126. Nicolas, 32, and his 31-year-old wife live in a modest apartment and friends say pride stopped them getting in touch with her.

126. try its best to gather and create good sentences.

127. Kurtzman said a modest business site can cost as little as $ 4, 000 with his Houston company.

128. They come back at the end of the day to pick up their modest checks.

129. Modest wage and price pressures were reported by most business contacts.

130. The rate of power consumption would be quite modest in such a postindustrial, steady-state society.

131. In the tenth century the number of houses was still relatively modest, the distances not enormous.

132. The formal announcement is believed to be scheduled for September, with modest volumes to be deliverable around November time.

133. In the west of Ireland a small roadside shrine to the Virgin Mary stands almost alongside an equally modest stone circle.

134. Railway workers in both countries have had to work exceedingly long hours even for these comparatively modest rewards.

135. It was low-pitched and reverentially modulated, a nice, crisp, modest baritone.

136. They had brought a modest decline in the face of extreme boom conditions, but no collapse.

137. From time to time Sendak has also authorized more modest theater productions.

138. Though his input has been enormous, he is modest about the extent to which it has brought him fame.

139. He held a wire basket with a modest stack of provisions.

140. One by one the teachers made their ways to their homes - modest, mostly celibate, mostly cheerless homes.

141. He conceded that the size of the holding was still modest by the standards of most Oxford delegates.

142. Red, White and Beyond San Antonio has come a long way since its modest garage debut.

143. An expanding body of data suggests that this modest investment can pay big dividends.

144. Characteristically modest about her accomplishment, Mrs Graham, then 80, was amazed that she had won a Pulitzer Prize.

145. Bruce Edgar adjudged him unlucky, but his record was modest: 17 wickets at 52.11 and 248 runs at 15.50.

146. Rebecca had refused to count her modest blessings, as her parents counseled.

147. In area after area, the pressure is on to roll back even the modest steps toward ensuring equality of recent years.

148. Even a relatively modest addition to the liberal framework, universal health coverage, remains elusive.

149. Some modest amendments to these modules are likely over the next few months, as a result of full consultation with centres.

150. They don't rate freedom especially highly and their drinking habits are the most modest in our sample.

151. They will block further tax cuts, except modest breaks for small businesses to ease the burden of a minimum wage increase.

152. Even a modest aerial explosion like the fifteen-megaton Tunguska event would utterly devastate a modern city.

153. Participating organisations will receive modest sums to defray recruiting, training and reporting costs.

154. These were very simple devices two small paraffin burners in square tins which gave a modest flame.

155. Still, despite these many disappointments, Nice does look like producing some modest steps forward in joint policy and decision-making.

156. Row after row of modest little brick houses are interspersed with delis and corner restaurants.

156.

157. After many years of modest living and involvement in tennis Higueras has found new fame.

158. This was disturbing news to the South, whose naval capabilities were modest.

159. Women who get relief and even enjoyment from crying can share this knowledge, given even modest encouragement.

160. Property owners offered concessions to attract new tenants and renters already in place received no, or modest, rent hikes.

161. His remedy, modest given his rhetoric, is that professors should be held more accountable for what they do.

162. North of Larchmont, the homes are more modest turn-of-the-century bungalows with two or three bedrooms.

163. The movie succeeds to a modest extent by taking full advantage of the romantic screen personas of its two stars.

164. Friedman applied it to the altogether more modest inflationary experience of the late 1960s.

165. It is as if by working in Weston Hall, Leapor came into contact with that family's modest literary tradition.

166. Twinkling sleighs, sporting six pairs of reindeer and a fat-free Santa, decorate even the most modest of houses.

167. Although the cost of living was very much less than it is now, schoolteachers' salaries were modest.

168. It wasn't obviously a particularly long discussion ... you are dealing with a company of a modest size ....

169. He has also made modest tax cuts of his own in New York City.

170. Classical philosophers refer to them with contempt, as peddlers of absolution for a modest fee.

171. I made some modest remarks about the social and political meanings encoded in works of art.

172. There is some evidence of modest influences, among many others, of the female labour market on family building patterns.

173. Democrats also intend to push for privacy initiatives and to propose modest gun control measures, party aides said.

174. Most villages had a sugarmill with a tall, slender chimney, or a modest watermill.

175. I always admired his wonderful modest way when running a course at Woolley Hall.

176. Their services were modest, and collective written agreements with employers remained exceptional.

177. Sell-out-tours, a gold album and as much fame as their modest little heads could handle.

178. Furthermore, many clerics in the eighteenth century held modest livings though they too occupied a position of privilege in society.

179. Even the modest proposal that literature should be read in its cultural context has large implications.

180. She has a modest expression and a pale sweet face.

181. As results depend on the assumptions, those chosen for these examples are deliberately modest.

182. I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able to help. Maya Angelou 

183. Though modest, Lucy admits she gets a buzz from seeing the characters she creates come to life on the screen.

184. He worked with others for a strong resolution against cruelty to marine animals, but with only modest success.

185. The hairdresser gave her hair a modest tinting.

186. My personal judgement suggests modest optimism.

187. " No modest,[http://] matronly dove grays and lilacs tonight.

188. Refrigeration equipment and laundry equipment will experience modest gains.

189. Sitting slantingly beside the teacher, he is modest and humble.

190. We will have at any rate in our cathedral a decent , godly , modest morning service.

191. Modest, unassuming , easy to approach, Premier Zhou soon put everyone there completely at ease.

192. Gordon:'re too modest It's and written and offers some very well thought out conclusions.

193. Here, too, Chinese caution suggests a modest revaluation is most likely.

194. Tom is too comfortably ensconced in his modest, undemanding job ever to consider making a change.

195. Mr Lee is one of the very few modest, unassertive personalities in the company.

196. The holists reject the piecemeal approach as being too modest.

197. Although one of China's richest men, he dresses inexpensively and lives in a modest Beijing apartment.

198. The administration of succinylcholine results in transient and modest increases in intracranial pressure.

199. Mourinho was modest afterwards, acknowledging the wild swings in hyperbole to which the media are prone.

200. Her eyes, however, betrayed that perfect confidence which contradicted the girlish simplicity of this modest attire.

201. Many in Germany saw the modest 74 - year - old as a hapless victim of the credit crunch.

202. A modest investment in the latest technology can save enormous amounts of time and travel expense.

203. Dr. Todt was one of the very few modest, unassertive personalities in the government.

204. I was a modest, good - humoured boy; it is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

205. Modest industrialisation centred on North - Eastern region, introduction of first Five - Year Plan in 1953.

206. We should be modest and prudent, guard against arrogance and rashness.

207. But he's very modest about it, even though he is probably the biggest heartthrob over there.

208. After clean skin Toner, from modest pat on surface to absorb.

209. The whole place had an air of tidiness and modest comfort.

210. His manner was often offensively supercilious, and then again modest and self - effacing, almost tremulous.

211. Even our Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar.

212. He did his best this week to stonewall questions and to block even the most modest proposals.

213. Mary is too comfortably ensconced in her modest, undemanding job ever to consider making a change.

214. Being a modest person, he was content to play second fiddle to others.

215. A modest person grey matter will earn more respect from others.

216. The eyes of even the most modest women light up the moment hope is born.

217. Meanwhile, the CEO has another albeit modest , plan to help mollify employees.

218. But with poorly studied groups, even modest phylogenetic analysis can reveal remarkable insights.

219. Yes, yes, I know you, modest mendicant , you ask for all that one has.