modest house

collocation in English

meaningsofmodestandhouse

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modest
adjective
uk
/ˈmɒd.ɪst/us
/ˈmɑː.dɪst/
not large in size or amount, or ...
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house
noun
uk
/haʊs/us
/haʊs/
a building that people, usually one family, ...
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(Definition ofmodestandhousefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Again, those powers can operate not only against large landowners and great corporations, but against themodesthouseholder and the ordinary citizen.
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They hold their quota by purchase, and they have no fixed costs other than the modest cost of a modest existence in amodesthouse.
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They may have a modest car and amodesthouse.
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The story is of amodesthouse, old, but standing in a certain area of ground.
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Today a million pounds may not be enough to endow quite amodesthouse.
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Even in the mostmodesthousethey pay tremendous attention to this.
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He would have to find £200 to go ahead and build hismodesthouse.
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What he got for hismodesthouseprovided a magnificent house in the north-west.
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It is an awesome, terrifying experience to have 50 people camped outside one'smodesthousein a small village.
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This was deliberately designed to help the person whose capital possession, possibly his sole capital possession, is amodesthouse.
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A constituent of mine was offered themodesthousein which he lived as a tenant at a price £1,000 below the market value.
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I bought a comparativelymodesthouseat a time when prices and interest rates were low.
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He lives in amodesthousenot far from here.
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The cost of even amodesthousenow is six times that salary.
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It is easy to make the transition from amodesthouseto a splendid house, but it is much more difficult to move the other way.
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It arose because people who want amodesthouseextension or their loft converted should not have to wait months and months for local planning officials to clear their application.
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Themodesthousein which he lived is still preserved, and can be visited.
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Death came in the samemodesthousein which he had lived since 1854, when he was seven years of age.
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All they can afford is amodesthousewhere a bookie operation seems to be sharing a telephone line.
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It replaced amodesthousewith timber framing and a straw roof dating from the 17th century.
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