modest success

On a higher level, the system has led to only modest success.

He had tried everything over the years, and admitted to some modest success.

The move points out how television, like the movie industry, has become a business where there is little room for a modest success.

Modest success was achieved in one area of media policy.

She had some modest successes behind her with short stories.

Fox tried a few new shows this summer, with modest success.

At first the production seemed merely to be a modest success.

The show was a modest success in its network run, despite some serious production problems.

But as this report shows, there are also some modest successes.

But the modest success of this search keeps one looking.

More important, she opened up the world for a school that had enjoyed only modest success.

That may explain why studies of the drug in women have shown only modest success.

These reflect a relatively late period of modest success for the town.

The first school failed and the second proved only a modest success.

The work has sold 350,000 copies, making it a modest success.

That price took what might have been a modest success and turned it into a major commercial failure.

But after a week of air drops, the operation was, at best, a modest success.

But the attempts to improve education met with only modest success, it said.

"The Song" lasted for a couple of years and saw modest success.

After winning a few modest successes, the army turned back south.

The paper was a modest success, with a circulation of 1,500 readers.

However, the line enjoyed at best a modest success, lasting just the one year.

Europe's employment strategies have so far met with only modest success.

In France, it was a modest success with nearly 400,000 film admissions.

The company had only modest success but the experience was important in the creation of Microsoft a few years later.