The students had only a modicum of interest in the history of that ancient country.    From LearnThat.org. 

I love the word modicum, thanks for using it in your post.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gender on the Tee Ball Field] Reference

Youth would not understand it were it to speak a modicum of its thoughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the Fireside with Silent Friends] Reference

I’m not sure it’s unfair to presume that one comes to that job with a certain modicum of confidence in one’s own judgment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Edwards, Shrum, and the War] Reference

This is not a woman who has displayed any kind of modicum of sensibility or anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2009] Reference

Long-term outcomes showed no significant differences, as long as there was even a "modicum" of such things as loving, setting of rules and teaching.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Emotional Moonscape] Reference

The Omniscient One is certainly possessed of an amount of knowledge equal to that small modicum which is all that a rational and immortal soul can boast of in reference to itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons to the Natural Man] Reference

"modicum" of Arab unity before a potentially hawkish new Israeli cabinet, Safa said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily Star > News Feed] Reference

Two, gain a modicum of control over the way I feel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Power of the Poontang] Reference

Fortunately the landlord was a man with some modicum of common sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Pirate] Reference

And if you show a modicum of interest, he'll take you on a tour of his greenhouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Tomatoes Back To Their Tasty Roots] Reference

It was the modicum of Gospel truth, presented with great earnestness, that really told.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

It has not been perfect, but the peace has provided a modicum of long-awaited stability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taufiq Rahim: The Fall in Lebanon to be Hotter Than the Summer] Reference

If all these paines do not produce a proportionate modicum of inspiration, then know I nothing of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference

With the modicum of hindsight that three years offer, what do we know now that we didn't know then?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hindsight Offers Lessons on Crisis] Reference

The only one with a modicum of wisdom is the garbage collector, who has cleverly opted out of the system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Working In Dilbert's World] Reference

Three months ago I left the restaurant world and took an office job where some modicum of civility exists.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAN I GET YOU SOME MANNERS WITH THAT?] Reference

 It takes only a modicum of ingenuity, but ingenuity is something that I can honestly boast I do not lack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rev. Jasper Pickery and Three Manifestations of the Devil] Reference

"There's a real need for places for teenagers to go where there's a modicum of adult involvement," she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Much Riskier Passage] Reference

Terror bombing is a game that can be played by anyone with a warped mind and a modicum of technical knowhow.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Serial Bomber Known As 'Fc'] Reference

I am of medium height, between blond and brunette, and am said to have a modicum of both brains and good looks.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Cook Husbands] Reference

Those with a modicum of familiarity with the military, strategic and economic equities at stake know he is right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coleen Rowley: Only Obama Can Manage the Iran Situation] Reference

Real-estate investment trusts, or REITs, offer a modicum of protection against inflation, as do stocks in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inflation? Deflation? It's All About 'Meflation'] Reference

This suggests that Americans have become focused on the mundane: Which candidate is most apt to do a modicum of good?.    From Wordnik.com.  [ELECTION, NOT CANONIZATION] Reference

Such gloves are often used by people handling corpses, and could be evidence, Haglund thought, of "a modicum of planning.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death Convoy Of Afghanistan] Reference

But I expect baseball writers to do a little better by the game and demonstrate at least a modicum of historical perspective.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: Begrudging Barry Bonds] Reference

There they found a modicum of safety and a haven of calm for their children, along with a fairly precise approach to education.    From Wordnik.com.  [Me and Sister Carmela] Reference

We can hold them to some modicum of social responsibility, but at the end of the day, they're a corporation - it's what they do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Megan Tady: What Google Still Isn't Saying] Reference

To the last, women would go distances to carry the modicum of food between themselves and starvation to a suffering Confederate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

Yes, there are our soldiers dying in fragmented nation states far away without a modicum of sacrifice being asked of the home front.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raymond J. Learsy: Decline of the Middle Class as Metaphor for the Decline of America] Reference

The rapid spread of settlements has given homes to the homeless and restored a modicum of justice and peace in places known for neither.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Plot Of Their Own] Reference

The father moved to the front row, not for ghoulish purposes, as others said, but to exhibit at least a modicum of his mentor's bravery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Like Water] Reference

Neither of those statements is true, and neither is likely to come true if the situation is handled with a modicum of sense on all sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friend Or Foe?] Reference

A foreign power can't hope to run a successful counterinsurgency campaign without a local ally who has at least a modicum of mass appeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Man in Afghanistan] Reference

This makes Don sad, so he muses about developing "a modicum of control over the way I feel" and climbing Africa's famed Mount Kilimanjaro.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Bradley: Mad Men : "The Summer Man" Is Clearing His Head] Reference

The writer is informed that one, if not both, of these individuals was considered to be a little “short” of the full modicum of brains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

Her battle is twofold: to help those around her retain some modicum of dignity, and then, when they return to the changed world outside, simply to survive.    From Wordnik.com.  [A World Gone Blind] Reference