So I cut a large piece of scrumptious cake, which was, at a modest estimate, 80 percent sugar, and ate it with my black coffee.

That is a far more modest estimate than the one originally given by the military and by the Bush Administration.

The cash target includes a modest estimate for future pay and inflation, but this is usually too low.

Other pieces in the sale carry more modest estimates.

The figures have soared above the modest estimates of the planners.

The contractors offered a more modest, second estimate: $100,000.

A modest estimate of his holdings would be that he owned 4-5,000 acres.

Not all schools submitted numbers that strain credibility, and some have put forth more modest estimates after years of sky-high claims.

Mr Guest said later that his modest estimate of the expenses was £5,500.

According to relatively modest estimates, the losses suffered by private individuals, public bodies and businesses amount to over 10 billion escudos.