1, Student grants these days are paltry, and many students have to take out loans.

2, the paltry subterfuge of an anonymous signature.

3, He received only a paltry ￡25 a day.

4, She made some paltry excuse and left.

5, This account offers a paltry 1% return on your investment.

6, The company offered Jeremy a paltry sum which he refused.

7, Their paltry and insignificant level has already been considered.

8, Club owners in Kansas City paid paltry wages to jazz musicians but gave them steady work.

9, Last year workers were offered a paltry raise of only one percent.

10, They paid paltry wages to jazz musicians but gave them steady work and much freedom over what they played.

11, Cover is a paltry three bucks, and further questions can be answered by calling 622-8848.

12, A paltry 5 % reduction of the 1990 level has been set, but by when?

13, Little of these paltry sums is likely to be new money, most being sliced off existing allocations.

14, With commitment and amounts of cash that seemed paltry when compared with government defence budgets, that problem could be solved.

15, This littleness is at once paltry and menacing and never in repose.

16, But the pay is paltry compared with the hundreds that can be made on a good day of lobstering.

17, But aside from Evita City, there is paltry physical evidence of her existence.

18, Paltry charges, it would seem, for so celebrated a spook.

19, There was something paltry about it , after all.

20, They believe they're playing a zero-sum game,[http:///paltry.html] where both must compete for the same paltry resources.

21, And it approves 2.5m applications to stay a year: Britain lets in a paltry 129,000.

22, What kind of kidnapper would sit down and write a three-page ransom note demanding a paltry $ 118, 000?

23, The site will open in November with a rather paltry 100 tracks available for download.

24, Even during the bubble years of the early 1990s, its average annual growth rate was a paltry 2. 7 percent.

25, Many of the workers in the factory received a paltry $2 a day.

26, The burst of issuance yesterday followed a slow start Tuesday and Wednesday, when new borrowing was paltry.

27, That is why men and women come on these schemes for such a paltry sum.

28, Yet by the standards of current advertising and sponsorship the sums involved and the use made of sport by advertisers was paltry.

29, But the total amount of helium-3 in Uranus and Neptune is vastly larger than this paltry sum.

30, But for government bureaucrats the privileges more than compensate for their paltry official salaries of a few hundred dollars a month.

1, They believe they're playing a zero-sum game, where both must compete for the same paltry resources.

2, Student grants these days are paltry, and many students have to take out loans.

31, How can you deliberately get up such paltry falsehoods?

32, So mean, petty paltry as to deserve contempt.

33, An aged man is but a paltry thing.

34, The parents had little interest in paltry domestic concerns.

35, Shareholders should lose their paltry remaining equity.

36, The poor painter sold his paintings for a paltry sum of money.

37, My right index finger — the only digit precise enough to hit the close-set virtual iPhone keys — seemed an anemic, cerebral thing, designed for making paltry points in debating club.

38, This is a paltry sum to pay for such a masterpiece.

39, Other assets, such as land and shares, remain at paltry levels compared with their bubble - era peaks.

40, With state banks offering savers paltry rates of interest, the under-the-counter ones simply offer more for deposits.

41, In 1960, he purchased a Baldwin grand piano from Leonard Bernstein for a paltry $ 5400.00.

42, So mean , petty , or paltry as to deserve contempt.

43, Tsao said,'such paltry faith wins no trust , the gods will not bless you . "

44, Instead of running to shorter-term Treasury bills, which yield a paltry 0.2 percent, they are prepared to bet that government note and bond yields compensate for the risk of inflation.

45, Listen. Do you think the paltry dozen you slew scares us?

46, The first venture - capital infusion, a paltry $ 300,000, came from a Boston - area firm , the Still River Fund.

47, Judas sold the lord for a paltry sum of money.

48, Tsao said ,'such paltry charity cannot reach all, the people will not follow you . "

49, As China Unicom's head man in Europe, Mr So was paid a paltry Chinese salary plus a small cost-of-living allowance. His allowance was only 30% more than that of the most junior employee, he says.

50, He considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost.

50, try its best to collect and create good sentences.

51, The half-starved and lice-infested remnants of the two divisions were in no shape to do much beyond clean and repair their paltry stocks of weapons and vehicles.

52, Jens Lehmann , signed from Borussia Dortmund for a paltry ￡1.5 m, was not Arsene Wenger's first - choice goalkeeper.

53, Two - way trade currently amounts to a relatively paltry 10 billion dollars.

54, As a matter of fact, we mankind are rather paltry sometimes.

55, One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action. is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum(Sir Walter Scott.

56, They suffered an electoral catastrophe, winning a paltry 3 seats.

57, As China Unicom's head man in Europe, Mr So was paid a paltry Chinese salary plus a small cost-of-living allowance.

58, In the USA, Haier's promotion budget accounts for only a paltry 1% of its American Sales.

59, Compared with some paltry gains, these prices are unjustified and immoral.

60, I'm getting angry; and if you don't command that paltry spirit of yours.