Sentences with phrase «pittance compared»

What amazed me is that you guys accepted this listing knowing the total commission would be a pittance compared to the time and effort that you and Giedra would need to put in... Living in Texas and deploying several times overseas during the process made it even more of a challenge for you.

He says Americans send just $ 7.5 billion to each other via peer - to - peer payments — a pittance compared to what Apple could generate in active Apple Pay users spending cash.

Real estate fees are a sliver of a pittance compared to the the costs of buying or selling a home.

What happens in a lot of cases, the people take a pittance compared to what they really should take.

The size of government debt is a pittance compared to the derivatives market.

That salary ($ 180k / year for a 3 day working week) is a pittance compared to what his policies have done to the country.

Even if they do, it's a tiny pittance compared to how much employers were compensating employees back in the good «ol days with actual defined benefit pension plans for retirement.

While computers and computer programmers aren't free, they cost a pittance compared to a Wall Street money manager.

So with the investment returns of our new reality, the amount of withdrawal taxes paid is a mere pittance compared to what traditional wisdom has led you to believe.

130k is a pittance compared to some of the losses I've seen recently on short sales.

It was truly a labor of love, and much of the star - studded cast (including small roles for Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, and Dustin Hoffman) worked for scale (a pittance compared to the their usual paychecks).

Barbara Buchner, head of the Climate Policy Institute Europe, who has written some of the leading policy papers on climate finance, noted that the $ 364 billion that went to clean energy activity globally last year is a pittance compared to the $ 1 trillion that the International Energy Institute says is needed annually.

The final project would cost a total of $ 300 million, a pittance compared with the nearly $ 5 billion NASA spends annually on its shuttle program.

In a written statement via text message, Liu said, «$ 26,000 fine imposed now, four years after - the - fact is a laughable pittance compared to the $ 3.5 million penalty unjustly imposed with political motivations on my campaign just weeks before the election in 2013.»

Mr. Woolf has spent only $ 204,911 — a pittance compared to the more than $ 1 million spent by the Republicans in the race.

The House GOP campaign arm has sent tens of thousands of dollars to the campaign of businessman Bob Turner — a pittance compared to the hundreds of thousands that it poured into a similar off - season congressional race earlier this year.

Cuomo eventually agreed to $ 450,000 in funding a few months before the anniversary of the war's start, an amount described by the New York Times as «a pittance compared with what some other governments are investing in their commemorations.»

The salary drawn for members of Congress is a pittance compared to what they make by other means while in office.

Meanwhile, Matuidi has joined Juventus for 18.2 million pounds (three year contract), a fee that appears to be a pittance compared to the 45m Everton are expected to pay for Sigurdsson or the 40 million being demanded by Leicester for Danny Drinkwater.

Not only would the Gunners be spending a pittance compared to our main Premier League rivals, we would often end up losing one of our best players to them.

He is reportedly being chased by Liverpool and Real Madrid, and may command a hefty price tag if Inter decide to sell, but his current wage is a pittance compared to Giroud's massive new deal.

That's a pittance compared to the wire houses, but size doesn't matter so much as viability.

This translated into a crushing debt load, even at present depressed rates: what forced Apollo GM to the negotiating table was a measly US $ 60 million interest payment, a pittance compared to what's coming due in 2019.

Not exact matches

So despite the fact that Arsene Wenger managed to keep the Gunners in the top four and qualify for the Champions League with a pittance to spend compared to others, there were plenty of grumpy Gooners who felt that a club like ours should be pushing for a trophy.

He may well have been referring to the massive price paid by City for the young England centre back John Stones as compared to the pittance we paid for young Rob Holding.

What ASUU is demanding in terms of allowance is a mere pittance when compared with what the illiterate «legislathieves» are appropriating to themselves on an hourly basis.

Please compare that to the pittance that charter school operators make for improving the lives of your children in most cases!

The extraordinarily low interest rate that you are paying to yourself with your loan payment is likely to be a pittance in terms of return on investment when compared to the market appreciation that you are missing.

The perceptible (and perhaps measurable) impact of global warming on hurricanes in today's climate is arguably a pittance (or noise) compared to the reorganization and modulation of hurricane formation locations and preferred tracks / intensification corridors dominated by ENSO (and other natural climate factors).

Of course, compared to the numbers you're talking about, it's a mere pittance.