Example sentences of "more than a modest " in BNC.
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| 1 | A movement moves : it does not , and dares not , coalesce ; and to capitalise it was no more than a modest journalistic hyperbole and a useful summary of an undoubted shift in literary taste . |
| 2 | Yet I was no more than a modest petitioner for lodgment . |
| 3 | Before World War II , as Drucker relates , ‘ all the books on management filled no more than a modest shelf ’ . |
| 4 | Conversely , evidence that no more than a modest quantity of water has been lost comes from considering the fate of oxygen liberated . |
| 5 | However , most laboratories which produce more than a modest number of thin sections are now equipped with appropriate automatic and semi-automatic systems . |