"modest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Experience shows that such a plan would result in only a modest saving, the spokesman said.
- Budgets aren't balanced with one or two good, big ideas, and even modest savings don't come easily.
- It falls most heavily on people with very modest savings or houses who have not taken appropriate advice.
- All said they had little if any insurance, modest savings and few ideas.
- His long years in government have left him with extremely modest savings.
- Administration officials say they are willing to consider alternatives that produce more modest savings in Medicare.
- However, many own their homes, with an average value in 2011 of £127,000, but only modest savings.
- Even relatively modest savings can amount to an impressive nest egg, he said.
- The aim is to have private plans control costs, but many health experts say this transformation would produce only modest savings.
- Critics, however, say the modest savings take on even less significance when the problems created by the new regulations are taken into consideration.
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