Sentences with phrase «meager gains»
The phrase "meager gains" means achieving very small or minimal results or benefits. Full definition
Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. said sales fell 4.7 percent in April from a year earlier, breaking a winning streak over the first three months of the year, as car deliveries slid and light trucks posted only meager gains.
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NCLB has produced meager gains in achievement.
Bitcoin traders were showing some resiliency Monday as prices attempted to earn meager gains following a rough weekend for the No. 1 cryptocurrency.
And, given the huge gains in US markets in 2013, it seemed most were predicting that stocks would pull back, or perhaps eke out meager gains.
But if we are unwilling or unable to defend even those meager gains — or worse, if communities that plainly benefit from them have leaders who question their value and want them stopped — something is going very, very wrong.
«That meager gain must be weighed against the law's costs.
Pending home sales were mostly unchanged in October, but did squeak out a meager gain for the second consecutive month.
A minimal decline in the beginning of the year is expected to turn into a meager gain by year's end.