modest rise
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmodestandrise
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modest
adjective
uk/ˈmɒd.ɪst/us/ˈmɑː.dɪst/
not large in size or amount, or ...
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rise
noun
uk/raɪz/us/raɪz/
an ...
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(Definition ofmodestandrisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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A moremodestrisewould achieve a major benefit.
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Even amodestriseof £5 for the over-80s and £3 for the over-75s would guarantee putting 40,000 or 50,000 pensioners above the poverty line.
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However, those figures conceal amodestriseuntil 1973, and sharp declines, sometimes fluctuating, in the past six years.
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Amodestrisein the price of vegetables or in the cost of getting shoes repaired can have a catastrophic effect upon their budgets.
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A moremodestriseis expected in 1949.
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In the coming year that budget will be about £1·170 billion, which is amodestrise.
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It seems to me totally unfair to the retired population that they should see themselves not sharing in what is even amodestrisein living standards.
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This was amodestrise.
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Because there was amodestrisein the two years after 1973,1 reckon that the decline amounts to about 25 per cent, in the last four years.
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Every time nurses receive amodestrise, up go the charges for their accommodation and facilities but the increase in charges does not necessarily relate to value for money.
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But with lower inflation, improved competitiveness, and the prospect of some growth in the world economy, the outlook for 1983 is for amodestrisein output.
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That is a verymodestrise.
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Despite themodestrise, the expanse of the plain makes these easy reference points on the horizon.
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Despite themodestrise, the expanse of the plain makes this an easy reference point on the horizon.
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He believes sea levels are rising but predicts a moremodestriseinstead of by 2100 targeted by some other scientists.
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South-western counties fell between these two extremes, exhibiting more modest rises in both the 1870s and 1880s with declines in between these peaks.
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When people are living on that kind of income, even modest rises in prices have a bad effect upon their standards.
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Those consequences include the sea level rising beyond the somewhat modest rises that will occur anyway as a result of the global warming to which we are already committed.
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