"modest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Andrew Goodwin, senior economic adviser to the Ernst & Young Item Club, said the modest pickup was "really the calm before the storm".
- Several Burmese publications note that the city's small tourism infrastructure will have to expand rapidly even to meet a modest pickup in tourism in the following years.
- Producer prices showed a modest pickup in November, rising only one-tenth of 1 percent when food and energy prices were excluded.
- Ms. Kristiansen predicted there would be little improvement before the year's end, while Mr. Edelman said there might be a modest pickup.
- Lawrence Chimerine, president of Chase Econometrics, a private forecasting firm, said, "We're seeing a modest pickup, particularly in those industries which are export sensitive, like paper and chemicals."
- "This clearly has the potential to be a modest earnings-per-share pickup," he said.
- "That said, looking out toward the end of the year, we think the trends are in the direction of a very modest pickup."
- We are seeing some modest seasonal pickup.
- "It's a modest pickup, but the environment still should be characterized as lackluster," he said.
- A "modest pickup" in the second half of the year was the most likely outcome, he added.
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