modest increase

That modest increase was still higher than some market participants had anticipated.

But it is unlikely that such families are going to spend a modest increase on child care.

This is a modest increase from the monthly level of about 700 early in the year.

The population was 417 at the 2000 census, a modest increase over the 1990 figure of 326.

And the report projects only modest increases for the next five years.

So a modest increase in deaths could have serious effects.

But the president, under pressure from Congress and the computer industry, agreed to support a modest increase six months later.

"At most, there will be some modest increase in the economic base," he said.

Several programs were identified by the Administration for modest increases.

"We had been hoping for a modest increase over 1987 prices," he said.