Casualties were high for the modest number of troops involved.

A modest number of paintings and photography is generally on show here, too.

Under some circumstances one is allowed to quote a modest number of words from someone else's work.

About 1,000 people, a modest number by Indian standards, were picked up for trying to invade the site.

Forty-five drama teachers would mean not quite one teacher for every two high schools, a modest number.

But the modest numbers don't really show the ambitions being worked out here.

Current and former workers say that the modest number of stock options were never really the draw.

He had 78 yards on 23 carries, a 3.4-yard average, modest but effective numbers.

But all this yielded a modest number of new principals: One.

The harm they did was limited mostly by low technology and modest numbers.