"The fact that it's turned out to be a modest business is a happy surprise."

It needs to be doing modest business on the good side of the million-viewer watermark for that.

There are always exceptions, but not very many now that publishing has ceased to be a modest business run by people who love books.

Many stands are jammed at lunchtime and then do more modest business until closing, which is usually late in the evening.

"It is still a relatively modest business," he said.

It is a modest business run by pupils after school hours.

Across the street from the front of our house was a collection of modest businesses.

The store did a modest business, with a mild boost from tourism, until the 1973 oil crisis.

However, for the time being export remained a modest secondary business.

The farmer's son had his own modest business, and government officials did not harass him, as they might otherwise have done.