modest home

collocation in English

meaningsofmodestandhome

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modest
adjective
uk
/ˈmɒd.ɪst/us
/ˈmɑː.dɪst/
not large in size or amount, or ...
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home
noun
uk
/həʊm/us
/hoʊm/
the house, apartment, etc. where you live, especially with ...
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(Definition ofmodestandhomefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As a result, 20,000 more estates, most of them people withmodesthomeownership values, will pay no tax at all next year.
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Does he realise that such a figure puts amodesthomeout of reach of vast numbers of ordinary couples?
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In the meantime, it will have raised, only to disappoint, the hopes of many people of getting amodesthomeof their own.
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Theirmodesthomewill probably not have a high rateable value.
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Modesthomeimprovements should not push a property from one band to another, and thereby attract a penalty.
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We have had to defend the argument that they would get a district valuer's valuation of their home, plus themodesthomeloss payment that has been provided for.
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She was raised in amodesthomewith both of her parents, and is the middle child, with two older brothers and two younger brothers.
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Each family would receive amodesthomeand enough acreage to raise their own food and crops.
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The remodeling work doubled the size of themodesthome.
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The following scene opens at themodesthomeof the old man.
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A workshop in which the women painted the majlis of themodesthomewhere he had been born.
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Although he always occupied a relativelymodesthome, members of his family would use their wealth to build magnificent mansions.
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The first takers of the deal generally received amodesthomeand around 15 dunams of land.
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He left her with only amodesthomeand a few acres of land.
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She owns la pension - it's a largemodesthomethat has over 5 rooms.
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Achacaz lived in amodesthome, which lacked a modern drainage system.
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It is a consumption and it is a necessary consumption with regard to modest homes, although it is an extravagant consumption in certain other cases.
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Few occupiers of modest homes are called upon to pay a considerable sum in this form of taxation.
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These are people who were normally being kept off council housing lists through buying modest homes of their own.
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Why not abolish it for modest homes worth, say, £40,000 or £50,000?
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