Sentences with phrase «scant reward»
The phrase "scant reward" means receiving very little or not enough in return for your efforts or actions. Full definition
In short, the billable hour, as a system, offers scant rewards for discipline.
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In Somerset we are fortunate to have a low unemployment rate, but job insecurity is rife and many people are working fewer days or hours a week - let alone all the pensioners whose savings now reap scant rewards.
Unfortunately a combination of unfortunate events, which occurred once Olly's stints were over, meant that two 19th place finishes were scant reward for all his hard work.
THat one goal was scant reward for our dominance and the failure to score more looked like costing us until Giroud came on.
For a striker with such pedigree, Roberto Soldado's tally of international caps is scant reward but after playing in the shadow of others for...
One FA Cup win, albeit an unforgettable one, was scant reward for the years of torture we endured in the mid-seventies and mid-eighties.