modest amount
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modest
adjective
uk/ˈmɒd.ɪst/us/ˈmɑː.dɪst/
not large in size or amount, or ...
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amount
noun[C]
uk/əˈmaʊnt/us/əˈmaʊnt/
a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot ...
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This is because grid geometries can be highly irregular, thus allowing only amodestamountof coarsening.
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Amodestamountof political liberalization - even in non-democracies - can generate a considerable amount of commercial reform.
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In return for this benefit, an employer would only be liable to pay amodestamountof damages set out in a statutory schedule.
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This is a conjecture for which there is amodestamountof evidence.
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Extreme concentrations of power in non-democracies hinder trade liberalization, while even amodestamountof political fragmentation can promote openness.
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It appears that the arithmetic task was too easy to interfere much with the language task once subjects had amodestamountof practice.
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These calculations show that, controlling for all else, working shorter hours reduces a person's hourly wage rate, but only by a relativelymodestamount.
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It required no more than amodestamountof error to destroy any vestige of a horizon effect.
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The injection of amodestamountof basalt will, however, lead to anatexis of the crust in the vicinity of the basic intrusions.
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In the period following the incipient decline of child mortality and when infant mortality was just beginning to fall, marital fertility fell by a verymodestamount.
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Themodestamountof trade and craftsmanship that was carried out in the towns may largely be attributed to the royal and ecclesiastical need for basic goods.
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For many such markets, a hospital need only add a physician in the appropriate specialty to its staff, along with amodestamountof equipment suitable to that specialty.
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Because of themodestamountof variance explained in the depression scores in the present study, other cross-cultural determinants of depression in later life remain to be elucidated.
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Each domain (individual, marital, parent - child, three-generational, and outside the family stressors) accounted for amodestamountof unique variance in the children's academic and social competence.
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People have access for themodestamountthat they pay for the licence fee.
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We are able to show somemodestamountof disagreement among ourselves.
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Twenty years ago, in 1973-74, the board received 12,000 claims, made 9,000 awards and paid out £4 million—still amodestamountby current standards.
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Therefore, we should put on only a verymodestamount—a few shillings—for rent.
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The amendments would cost amodestamountand would help to remove some of the anomalies.
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