For smaller companies, particularly in Brooklyn and Queens, a modest expansion even appears to be under way.

This season saw a relatively modest further expansion to 24 teams, including the return of founder members Kingston.

It permitted modest expansion of the private sector, allowed some foreign investment, and received much needed foreign exchange.

And then the house decided that, perhaps, it was time for a modest expansion.

With continuing demand for private education in Austria the school plans a modest expansion of numbers over a period of years.

But that solution often fails, because the school population quickly outgrows the modest expansion.

Even the modest expansion for this fall faces huge hurdles.

"The growth rate in the third quarter is consistent with a modest and steady economic expansion."

A modest expansion that began in 1993 is already a year behind schedule.

Branson told employees that Virgin's present staffing level was designed to allow for a modest expansion.