On a cosmic scale, the odd meteorite shower is a fairly modest event.
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Conservative horror stories about the devastating effect of fairly modest tax hikes filled the airwaves.
After these, specific foods make up a fairly modest 6% to 7% of cancer risk, Willett estimates.
Prices have remained high because the increase in production is still fairly modest, roughly in line with demand gains.
But even this fairly modest ambition, for which around 4, 000 extra soldiers were requested, is now being pegged back.
In contrast, the governments of most East European countries run fairly modest deficts.
On the current time-table, the fairly modest expansion agreed nearly five months ago might not be formally ratified until November.
But MG itself remains a fairly modest investment, compared - for example - with Indian Tata's ownership of Jaguar Land Rover.
The first thing you'll notice, if you've seen its bigger brother is that, all things considered, this is a fairly modest set.
In contrast to products such as whole life insurance, health insurance pays brokers fairly modest commissions--generally 10% or so of the premiums--every month.
It's only trading at 11 times earnings, which is fairly modest.
Well, the town of 20, 000 north of Worcester is pretty darned proud of its girls swim team, which won 16 state titles under Lemieux despite training in fairly modest facilities.
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Within the school system there is plenty of scope for efficiency gains, which should make it possible to improve both the quality and the quantity of education at a fairly modest cost.
OECD's education experts think that part of the reason why East European countries' pupils do so well in international tests, despite fairly modest education spending, is that they have effective teacher-training programmes.
The tents at these camps range from fairly modest to luxury suites that just happen to have canvas walls, but what the properties share is the ability to create a singularly transporting experience.
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There are some fairly modest changes that could be made without resorting to any newfangled schemes that would continue Social Security for another 75 years, where everybody would get the benefits that they deserve.
In the past, the magnitude of this wealth effect has been fairly modest, but it may have grown in many countries over the past decade or so as financial wealth has increased relative to income.
The MVNO has a fairly modest 12-month subscriber target of 100, 000 users -- and while they're being a little coy about whether the service on track for that number, they've reiterated that it's still the number they're shooting for.
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The higher the Index value the better, because it either has a high 5 year growth rate tempered by a fairly low payout ratio, or a modest growth history with a very low payout ratio.
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So far, this is a fairly typical story of an author having modest if not improbable success (the vast majority of authors who attempt to secure an agent or a publishing contract with even a small publisher fail).
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