Sentences with phrase «paltry amounts of»

Expensive smartphones shouldn't have such paltry amounts of storage.

Not only will these wind farms produce paltry amounts of electricity, the electricity produced will be of lower value due to the intermittent, volatile, and unpredictable nature of wind - generated electricity.

It is recommended for fans of post-apocalyptic science fiction, zombie flicks, and those who have been disillusioned with the paltry amounts of intelligent horror films to come out in recent years.

So, compared with the milk of other mammals, human milk has fairly paltry amounts of protein and fat.

I am seeking to call attention to the paltry amounts of paid maternity leave in this country.

Look at the paltry amount of guaranteed money in his deal compared to others.

(Also, when my boss has a go at me for not finishing a piece of work, I want to be able to say that the criticism doesn't cover what I'm going to do in future to build on the steps that I've included so far to get some paltry amount of the job done.)

With such a dearth of heavy elements, astronomers predict that the LMC should contain a comparatively paltry amount of complex carbon - based molecules.

For Michael, that meant he wasn't digesting or absorbing the paltry amount of nutrients from his poor diet.

It's mostly saturated (stearic acid) fat, with about 30 % monounsaturated, and a paltry amount of polyunsaturated fat.

Even with its superb gameplay and the addictive new Firefight co-op mode, a five - hour campaign is a paltry amount of content for a full - priced game.

The two deleted scenes when played together total up to just over six minutes (6:07, to be exact) and are unimportant additions, but with the paltry amount of extras included they are nice to have.

Even Anderson's debut, Hard Eight, is steeped in a sense of economic woe, its violence predicated on squabbles over a frankly paltry amount of money that nonetheless means the world to those on the outs.

I went back and gave her some paltry amount of money I had in my pocket.

It's not just the paltry amount of space available (only 10.1 cubic feet behind the rear seats)-- the tailgate opening is also the smallest of all these cars, and the liftover height is among the highest.

But the old GLK's most egregious shortcoming was its paltry amount of interior space, an issue that the 2016 Mercedes GLC300 addresses for both people and their stuff.

This paltry amount of screen real estate effectively prevents the Streak 7 from having dual - paneled apps such as the Galaxy Tab's Calendar, or from showing most web pages at full width without zooming out.

We found this paltry amount of RAM and Processor speed diminished the effectiveness of the touchscreen interface.

The Kobo Vox is making some users fairly irate with its slow processor and paltry amount of RAM.

I needed to install an app to let me freeze these and other useless apps so they didn't take up the paltry amount of ram the device has.

This is partly because text is too small to read and local bookstores have a paltry amount of titles that have extra large fonts.

The main drawback on the Kindle DX e-reader is the paltry amount of firmware updates it has received during its lifetime.

Barnes and Noble is offering a super deal on their eBay channel right now giving away a refurbished Nook Color for the paltry amount of $ 129.

Many people have some money saved that is just sitting in a savings account and earning a paltry amount of interest.

Now, I could've traded it in to GameStop for some paltry amount of credit, but I decided against it.

For instance, when you look at open world games like Skyrim, Borderlands 2 and Dragon Age: Inquisition, its frankly laughable what a paltry amount of actual hard product you are offering.

While the five distinct race types keep players from ever getting bogged down, Colin McRae fans from way back are likely to feel they've been given short shrift in terms of the paltry amount of pure, technical rally action.

What's worse, so many of these passes offer a paltry amount of content that simply doesn't justify the price.

I'm sure it's possible to whizz through the nine chambers in under two hours, a paltry amount of puzzling for a game which claims to provide forty hours of content to the completionist.

Originally Kickstarted last year, A Druid's Duel was asking for the paltry amount of $ 7,000.

Over last years it has come about the situation that paying paltry amount of compensation is more worthwhile than investing heavily in the safety of human life and health.

Apps were fast to launch, multitasking proved to handle itself well despite the relatively paltry amount of RAM, and graphically demanding game titles like Need For Speed: No Limits or Marvel's Contest of Champions ran well without any hiccups.

The paltry amount of internal storage space is also a concern, and you'll soon find yourself having to invest in a microSD card to store photos and media.

Currently only available through TalkTalk on contracts starting at # 10 a month with a paltry amount of minutes and data (100 mins and 200 MB), it's a good choice for those after a decent amount of power on a budget.

It is not surprising, given the lack of clarity, that a paltry amount of money is spent on post-adoption services, the kind that could help keep an adoptive family together in tough times.

Not exact matches

However, after the same amount of games this term, it's a paltry one goal and assist.

The amount of Foreign Military Financing (FMF) promised to Libya for this fiscal year and next year amounts to a paltry $ 150,000, with an additional $ 50,000 for officer training.

Aregbesola, who made the remarks while declaring a one day seminar for information officers at the local government open, added that the much talked about N165bn would amount to a financial commitment of paltry over N2, 000 on each resident annually, for the duration of 20 years, if shared amongst the four million population in the state.

In effect, the Perfit formula «quadrupled the amount of taxes the developer will pay» (from the paltry $ 103,000 the first year originally offered to the $ 522,000 adopted by the IDA and accepted by developers last week).

Those paltry bonuses are twofold: «Beyond the Eight: A Behind the Scenes Look» (4:58, HD), a promotional EPK with some talking heads and film clips amounting to less than five minutes of behind - the - scenes «insight,» and «Sam Jackson's Guide to Glorious 70 mm» (7:49, HD), which allows the star to explain the Ultra Panavision process and the work of cinematographer Robert Richardson.

And when it comes to needing special education services, while 12.5 percent of Hartford students need special education help, at Steven Perry's Capital Prep, the number is less than half that amount... a paltry 5.7 percent.

The power boost amounts to a mere 2.6 percent, the better for bragging rights against the likes of RS Audis and AMG Benzes, but on power alone, the C.P. designation is a barely - there bump that amounts to a paltry.2 seconds in the race to 124 mph, and.1 second to 62mph.

The fastest growing segment in digital publishing are audiobooks, they experienced a 26 % increase in sales, but the amount of money they are making is fairly paltry.

Canadians certainly do not have access to copious amounts of best sellers and can only buy a paltry two thousand.

Yes, memory is non-expandable here and the standard model comes with only 16 GB of internal storage — enough to get going but a paltry amount compared to the 64 GB of top end iPads.

1 GB of RAM is joined by a paltry 4 GB of internal flash storage, which pretty much amounts to about 1.9 GB for the end user to use.

The paltry RAM mainly affects the amount of web pages that users can open at once, meaning pages will have to reload when a user has a number of tabs open.

The performance differences comes from those seemingly paltry dividends: Despite the much better per share results of IBM, the shareholders who bought Standard Oil and reinvested their cash dividends would have over 15 - times the number of shares they started with while IBM stockholders had only 3 - times their original amount.

My mother is the legal surviving spouse of my dad and gets a paltry amount from dad's pension, while most of it is used to pay for nursing home services.

«It's a good option to consider for those who have large amounts of fixed income and have several hundred thousand dollars in GICs paying a paltry return of 1.5 %,» explains Talbot Stevens, author of The Smart Debt Coach.