I was pleased with the overall response and I think we collectively felt a modicum of relief.
The old Latin school had only one main subject, the study of Latin style (combined with a modicum of Greek).
He felt an urge to stay and offer some modicum of comfort to this woman he hardly knew.
The thought that he might be gave her a modicum of confidence.
During a life of incessant activity Chalmers scarcely ever allowed a day to pass without its modicum of composition; at the most unseasonable times, and in the most unlikely places, he would occupy himself with literary work.