modest scale

collocation in English

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modest
adjective
uk
/ˈmɒd.ɪst/us
/ˈmɑː.dɪst/
not large in size or amount, or ...
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scale
noun
uk
/skeɪl/us
/skeɪl/
a set of numbers, amounts, etc., used to measure or compare the level ...
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(Definition ofmodestandscalefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Pearse defended his approach by stating that this was amodestscale.
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Second, poverty alleviation programmes began life, albeit on amodestscale.
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Archaeological monuments in the landscape could also be protected with this act, though only on amodestscale.
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Any such curtailment was only temporary, however, and the trade soon resumed, although on a moremodestscale.
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By the autumn of 1933 the real programme of governmentfinanced work creation was started, albeit on amodestscale.
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The régime will be brisk and exacting, as it has been up to now in the experience on amodestscalethat we have had.
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I want to emphasize the fact that these proposals are on a verymodestscale.
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In their own way, on amodestscale, they were extremely successful.
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History has shown, however, that expansion—certainly on what now seems themodestscalethen anticipated—did not threaten or damage academic standards.
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Delay, too, is built into the alternatives, however adequate their performance on amodestscale.
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All area health authorities make some use of contract cleaning services, though this may be on amodestscale.
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They are on a verymodestscale, and you cannot make big reductions in them without affecting the war effort.
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It will have a modest role, and so it might as well be maintained on amodestscale.
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But where the circumstances are exceptional some assistance will be granted on amodestscale.
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It covers a wide range of valuable exchanges but on amodestscale.
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We operate an interchange of staff with the private industrial and commercial sector, necessarily on amodestscale.
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In some cases they commenced on a verymodestscale.
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The council which helps to service them already works on an extremelymodestscale.
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There are signs that that is happening on amodestscale.
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Moreover, most private foresters and timber merchants operate on amodestscaleand do not buy enough plant and machinery to attract sizeable investment grants.
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