Sentences with phrase «meager amounts of»

How must a person live on such meager amounts of cash?

It's a good thing they're usually fortified with meager amounts of vitamin D, just enough to avoid rickets and keep blood calcium relatively under control.

Another friend called a lactation consultant, sobbing, worried that her newborn daughter (who was born with a pinched nerve in her neck, leaving her unable to nurse) was starving on the meager amounts of breast milk she was able to pump and feed through a tube.

But, ask yourself this: What quality of work or level of experience do you think you'll get for that meager amount of money?

It was not fluffy and pretty like the images you provided, so I used it in between layers to try to get some extra height to the meager amount of cake that I had to work with.

During the summer, teachers are either teaching summer school for a meager amount of money over what they earn during the school year, or they are paying money for continuing improvement courses that they can not afford on their teacher's salary.

Working against the iM is its weight: At just under 3,000 pounds, 137 hp is a somewhat meager amount of power to battle the forces of gravity.

I came to Thailand with a meager amount of savings.

I know some people are upset about the localization changes, just as I know there are people who are upset about the meager amount of fanservice that managed to remain in the game.

The downsides here are a disappointing battery, a mediocre front camera, a meager amount of non-expandable storage (unless you're willing to shell out more cash), and a general resistance to many standards that have been set by Android flagships over the past few years, like a water - resistant design or a removable battery.

«Home shoppers are coming out in droves this spring and competing with each other for the meager amount of listings in the affordable price range,» he said.

Not exact matches

The churches, however, were mostly meager funders of their schools; what they gave amounted to only a token part of the budgets each college had to balance annually.

The amount of money he needs to make the land purchase isn't much by North American standards, although virtually unattainable on his meager salary.

Despite the large amount of possession, Mexico only finished with a meager tally of three shots on target and no goals.

A report from state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli released this week raised concerns that the Empire State Development Corp.'s job creation prowess was relatively meager compared to the amount of state funds spent.

Woloz's cash - gathering was substantially more subdued last year, amassing $ 16,650 for de Blasio and almost $ 5,000 for Scott Stringer, and distributing relatively meager amounts among Corey Johnson and two of his rivals.

In his view, such amount is meager to achieve «anything good» in any of the constituencies across the country.

Law determines the duration and amount of these subsidies and they are usually the most meager of benefits.

So, we rely on our diets for most of this essential nutrient, even though few foods are naturally rich sources of vitamin D and only a few, such as milk, are supplemented with anything more than meager amounts (see Should Foods Be Fortified Even More?).

Try though the film did to give each of the characters individual ways in which they were «broken,» and give Lena some meager backstory flashbacks, none of it really amounted to anything substantial.

It's a meager upgrade, but still a reasonable amount of power for the midsize sedan.

The Nook Tablet edges out the Kobo Vox meager 800 MHZ CPU Processor with its dual - core 1 GHZ CPU and has double the amount of RAM with 1 GB.

Thankfully, there are now stock trading apps like Acorn, Stash, and Stockpile to use for free or for a meager amount instead of the brokers who used to charge you a lot per inquiry.

It probably doesn't make sense to get a reward card just for the purpose of earning extra points on your phone bill or gym membership, because the amount you spend on those are probably meager compared with other categories.

For most people, the actual amount of rewards can be quite meager.

It's a meager detail, for the levels contain generous amounts of heads for the player to replenish its supply.

No amount of side salad is going to make up for the meager main.

There really is a strange sense of satisfaction when you win a demon in a bid against imaginary bidders, and in contrast, a frustrating sense of loss when you lose a bid by a meager amount.

This injury claimant made an offer to settle in the amount of $ 195,000 about 2 weeks before trial and ICBC responded with an unrealistic and meager $ 70,000 offer.

Contrast this meager return with what the beneficiary would have earned had the same amount been deposited over the decades in a 6 % savings account, or in mutual funds paying a long - term average of 12 %!

While this may sound like a significant amount of revenue, in comparison to Apple's numbers it still seems a bit meager.

This makes sense given that a 12 - inch or 13 - inch 4K display seems quite meager for that amount of pixels.

This is an incredibly meager amount by historical standards, and is indicative of the headwinds that this property type continues to face.