To this august academic audience he choose to speak of a more modest person, he spoke about the person in the arena.

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Square's modest undertaking has since ballooned to a roughly 300-person operation.

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In person Sir Ranulph comes across as a strikingly modest, canny and straightforward man - reluctant to dwell on his own frustrations - 50% of all his past expeditions had failed, he pointed out.

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But the fact is that when you build a life for two (or more) on low to modest incomes and one person leaves, you both feel it desperately.

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The typical person did not participate in the money-shuffling of the last decade, except in a modest and unfortunate way.

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While London's Tech City was announced by the prime minister in person and featured cabinet ministers and the Mayor of London, Berlin's was a far more modest launch, featuring entrepreneurs.

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Namely, if you are of more modest means, the proportion of baseball tickets you buy relative to football tickets will be greater than a wealthier person because baseball tickets are considerably more affordable.

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