1. He gave us measly little portions of cake.

2. All I got was a measly ￡5.

3. I get a measly £4 an hour.

4. The average British bathroom measures a measly 3.5 square metres.

5. You just worry about your own measly little relationships.

6. That measly little paycheck barely covered the rent.

7. I have my scruples, measly as they may be.

8. Cover is a measly $ 3.

9. What a measly birthday present!

10. And a measly 44. 6 percent said the city was doing a good job of attracting and keeping jobs and business.

11. It rose back to average-a measly fourteen inches-in 1921 and went slightly over that in 1922.

12. This time,[Sentence dictionary] the Jaguars managed one measly field goal and nothing else.

13. It had grown only four measly shoots!

14. I asked. " Just take this measly 10 cents an hour and smile? "

15. Meanwhile a newly restored dividend -- albeit a measly one penny per share -- and a ten-for-one reverse stock split could drag its shares out of the single digits.

16. One measly mango, that's all we've had from this tree.

17. Guess what: We're just a measly month away from holiday kick-off time.

18. Dominic, the show-off of the group, picked up one measly pear, put it on top of his snout and performed a balancing act as we made our way back to the cave.

19. But force repayment, and you feel like a hit man a measly two bucks.

20. At the door of his car , it seemed stupid to him to drive the measly half block home .