modest improvement
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmodestandimprovement
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modest
adjective
uk/ˈmɒd.ɪst/us/ˈmɑː.dɪst/
not large in size or amount, or ...
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improvement
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/us/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/
an occasion when something gets better or when you make ...
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(Definition ofmodestandimprovementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We can see amodestimprovementhere by just avoiding some overhead.
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Although there was amodestimprovementin scores for some morphemes, a series of paired t tests demonstrated that none of these differences reached significance.
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Between 1962 and 1990, it was possible to provide them in roughly half the total opportunities, with amodestimprovementas the years passed.
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With the binary model, recall for the test set was 80%, about the same as the three-way model, and there was amodestimprovementin precision, to 52%.
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On the contrary, one can imagine the opposite view: a modest increase in the number of otherwise normal minicolumns could produce amodestimprovementin information processing power.
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These expansions do not have the tendency of the series to diverge after a certain point, and so gave a fairlymodestimprovementin accuracy, and much added convenience.
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Fetal cell transplantation has been performed in over 200 patients world-wide with amodestimprovementin motor symptoms.
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The second scenario considers gradual trade integration, combining unilateral trade liberalization through tariff reduction vis-à-vis all trade partners, with a concurrent butmodestimprovementof terms of trade.
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Counselling is associated withmodestimprovementin short-term outcome compared with usual general practitioner care, and thus may be a useful addition to mental health services in primary care.
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It will allow for somemodestimprovementin the staffing ratios.
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Indeed, having created problems of such dimensions, it is hardly a great achievement if they manage to make amodestimprovement.
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I welcome the extremelymodestimprovementthat has taken place.
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I welcome themodestimprovementthat was effected in the other place.
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We think that they help to clear the matter and represent amodestimprovement.
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That is therefore amodestimprovement.
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Four years later, even thatmodestimprovementhas not been delivered.
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Perhaps we could increase our timber harvest through that policy, but it would be a marginal ormodestimprovement.
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Surely it is amodestimprovementto suggest that people should be allowed in for interview even though they have not yet been accepted.
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