Such an armada might not, however, be necessary to produce a more modest but still useful effect.
Nestled within the garden is the more modest but still charming town house, a one-bedroom duplex with simpler furnishings and a full kitchen, stocked by the staff of the Bauer, who act as support for both residences.
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When looking at the previous months reading of 50.6, the weakness was modest, but still taking the UK economy towards contraction.
That might still sound modest, but the annual rate of growth in American imports has slowed from almost 20% in the second quarter of last year to minus 10% this year.
Goldman Sachs Group chief Lloyd Blankfein said macro-economic concerns weighed on the appetites of investors and corporations in the first quarter, but the bank still managed to record a modest increase in revenue and profit from a year ago.
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The projects we saw in the delta, funded by the EU but co-ordinated through LIFT, were modest, but tailored to the needs of the two villages still recovering from the destruction wreaked by the cyclone.
The popularity of social network games, like "Happy Farm" or "House Buying, " is growing rapidly in China, but virtual sales from these games still generate only modest revenues.
America's low rate of inflation and its weak labour market mean that policy needs to remain accommodative, but a modest rise in interest rates would still leave monetary policy extremely loose by past standards, and thus continue to stimulate demand and jobs.
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But although overall growth is likely to be modest for some years, there are still plenty of opportunities, particularly in agribusiness and mining, and in catering for growing demand for education, health-care and the like.
Sir Terry, like Sir Peter, comes from modest origins in Merseyside, but whereas the quiet, lean Sir Terry still collects visitors personally from the lobby of Tesco's shabby headquarters in Cheshunt, the charismatic, rotund Sir Peter directs Sainsbury's fortunes from a glass-and-steel office block in central London and seems most at home at the Royal Opera House, where he is a director.
Polls show a modest rise in public support for nuclear power in recent years, but there is still anxious uncertainty over where to bury the waste.
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But even if it does only modest business outside the U.S., the film will still make money.
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But that still leaves him facing an election next year, with no prop to his popularity save for hopes of a modest rise in economic growth, from 3.5% last year to perhaps 4.5% this year.
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