"modest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- That modest increase was still higher than some market participants had anticipated.
- But it is unlikely that such families are going to spend a modest increase on child care.
- This is a modest increase from the monthly level of about 700 early in the year.
- The population was 417 at the 2000 census, a modest increase over the 1990 figure of 326.
- And the report projects only modest increases for the next five years.
- So a modest increase in deaths could have serious effects.
- But the president, under pressure from Congress and the computer industry, agreed to support a modest increase six months later.
- "At most, there will be some modest increase in the economic base," he said.
- Several programs were identified by the Administration for modest increases.
- "We had been hoping for a modest increase over 1987 prices," he said.
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