Sentences with phrase «earn pittances»

Especially at a time right now when you can accumulate asset - backed debt at such incredibly low rates and when your savings earn pittances.

The fortunate ones earn a pittance a day.

When such e-waste is exported to places such as Guiyu in China, it ends up in vast recycling centers where laborers earn a pittance smashing, cracking, melting and cooking old electronic goods to extract the valuable materials they hold, ranging from gold to plastics.

Be content earning a pittance on your savings account.

If you hold some cash in a self - directed registered account with a discount broker, you've probably resigned yourself to earning a pittance in interest.

If disaster does strike you can access funds, but also don't have the whole amount earning a pittance in an instant access savings account.

However towards the end of the year I shifted from Adsense (which earned me a pittance) to another network, which looks like it will be considerably more lucrative going forward.

They earn a pittance.

Not exact matches

«This extraordinary liquidity earns only a pittance and is far beyond the level Charlie and I wish Berkshire to have.

Nevertheless, hundreds of thousands of parents can not afford to lose the pittance that a four - year - old child can earn; thus even free primary education is an unaffordable luxury for many.

The male lead earned $ 750 per day, the female lead $ 1,500 per day (top money for the industry)-- a pittance in the whole financial deal.

Yes, Crystal Palace were probably not going to pay him what he earns at Arsenal but whatever they offer will not be a pittance and he will still be able to live comfortably and play regular football.

Offering to pay more than the cheap items were worth earned the trust of the seller, and the strategists also made the most profit overall: they sacrificed comparatively little on cheap deals and paid a pittance for expensive objects.

by Bill Chambers Two Family House and Panic, a pair of overlooked films hopefully not destined to become overlooked DVDs, have more in common than a passing glance suggests, and their joint failure to earn even a pittance sounds the death knell for independent cinema as we knew it in the early -»90s.

Screw you, you're not worth my goodwill or making my books available on your platform because you dared to go against the stream of uber popularity and get a Nook (or a Sony or Kobo or any other reader out there) and I'm way more interested in trying to take my share of the pittance I'm likely to actually earn out of the $ 500,000 Amazon has designated for the month of December.

With those doubts neatly planted in the press, the public shrugs, politicians push the problem off to another day, and ExxonMobil parries new fossil - fuel regulations, earning more windfall profits in exchange for a pittance to the skeptics and their work.