Sentences with phrase «with measly»

Especially after living in a dinky hovel of a home with measly 7 1/2 foot high ceilings and one room that's supposed to be living, family, office and play room.

I know my new almost flush mount light fixture is $ 15 so I'm hoping to be able to finish the rest of the list with a measly $ 17.

Squires, the eldest of seven, says her family lived off the land so much so that she didn't eat her first fast - food burger until she moved to St. John's at 16 with a measly $ 30 in her pocket.

Under the hood, it packs a 1 GHz dual - core Qualcomm CPU along with a measly 512 MB RAM.

The standard - issue PlayStation 4 comes with a measly 500 GB of storage space.

With those measly savings, it'd take you more than two years to recoup the cost of a $ 50 Roku Streaming Stick.

PeterS, With those measly qualifications, how do you expect to compete with a political scientist in the climate debate?

Rather than start with a measly three lives — like the classic mode — you'll be given an unlimited amount.

Once you finally beat the game, you'll be rewarded with a measly silver trophy.

The unlock system worked on the Metroid system of striptease by showing the player something just out of reach with the measly 50cc bike but something you'd definitely reach if only you had the 150cc brute.

Sounds good to me, considering that with a measly $ 30 million in pocket change director Neil Blomkamp managed to create one of the most powerful and political alien movies ever made, and without skimping on the fiery explosions.

I know, some of you are yawning and asking, «What can I do with a measly 20,000 Hilton Honors points?»

If you combined forces with your partner then you could net over $ 2,000 worth value from this card that comes with a measly $ 75 annual fee.

I have a card with a measly $ 2K limit, so I've done very little with the card (although spent 2x - 3x my limit per month) and my account is still intact as of this writing.

She was planning to throw them away after I left with my measly $ 100 card ($ 200 was out of stock).

Don't just smear peanut butter in there with a measly treat.

I graduated with a measly associates in general studies, and work full time...

I would have paid the high interest loan off in the same time frame without the balance transfer, but this saved me tons of interest, even with the measly 1 % fee.

With a measly 1 % rewards rate, and a $ 59 annual fee (waived year 1), it becomes hard to justify keeping this card in your wallet, when a good cash back credit card can provide you with far better savings overall.

I would roll into the Accelerated Reader store with hundreds of points, dwarfing all the other students with their measly twenty or thirty.

That leaves you, the author, with a measly 15 percent of paperback net sales and 25 percent of e-book net sales.

I am tired of plagiarism, book piracy and cheap - * ss scum bags who won't part with a measly $ 2.99 or $ 4.99 to support authors and show respect for their hard work, not to mention the graphic artists, editors, photographers who also contributed to the birth of an author's ebook.»

According to Publishing Perspectives the general consensus suggests that Amazon has an e-book marketshare of 50 - 60 %, 15 - 20 % for Tolino, and Apple with a measly 10 %.

Your grammar and typos wouldn't even fly with us measly indies.

However, work the supercharged unit hard and the fuel consumption will drop to the mid to high 20s, which isn't so bad in itself, but when it's combined with the measly 35 - litre tank, you'll find that the Yaris will barely go 200 miles between refills.

Focus World's Term Life, meanwhile, cut short its existence with a measly $ 260 PTA in 50 theaters.

Rocking up to the gathering hall with my measly Kut Ku armour, I was immediately set upon by an impressive trio of hunters offering to hold my hand through encounters I would have no chance of beating otherwise.

Instead, both they and the Sandman's reliable fanbase seem to have stayed far, far away to make this one of the biggest bombs of the summer with measly grosses of $ 37 M domestically and $ 19 M overseas.

When Optimus Prime (voice of Peter Cullen) travels to the lunar surface to bring back his former leader, Sentinel Prime (Leonard Nimoy), with several «space bridge» pillars, a plan is fomented that may bring the robots back to the brink of war again — with the measly humans once again caught in the middle.

After all, nothing is more annoying than busting your ass for weeks at a time with the goal of losing weight, only to be rewarded with a measly pound or less of weight loss, or even worse yet, weight GAIN over that period of time, am I right?

Once inside the nose the air swirls around up to 300 million olfactory receptors, compared with our measly 6 million (Journal of the Royal Society Interface, vol 7, p 933).

Compared to other high - tech countries around the world, Germany lags behind when it comes to providing free Internet, with a measly two wi - fi hotspots for every 10,000 people.

Who is JJ supposed to fight next she already cleaned out the top of the division including beating a few opponents who beat Rose handily???? She was a very dominant champ and gave Rose who was 6 - 3 with a measly one win streak a shot at her title.

(Seaver's»76 record was a mediocre 14 - 11, but in his losses his teammates provided him with a measly total of 15 runs.)

«If somebody flirts around with a measly offer because he is in the last year of his contract, we would make more money by keeping him and finishing where we are in the league than selling him and putting our good season in jeopardy.

Nor Barca ignoring Neymar and launching in to Suarez with his measly 16 league goals.

Mary, Sarah, and myself all finished with a measly point.

I haven't always felt this way but since I've started eating more intuitively — you know, listening to my body — I've noticed that my late - night sugar craving is easily satisfied with a measly 10 grams of refined sugar.

This always happens, if my husband really likes something, it's game on, and I'm usually left one with measly little piece, and in this case one pitiful (yet juicy) strawberry.

With the measly returns offered up by bonds, an overextended bull market, and a bleak economic outlook, adding gold to your portfolio is a wise move.

When I needed dental work of $ 10,000 I was going to be rewarded with a measly 10 % rebate.

The standard - issue PlayStation 4 comes with a measly 500 GB of storage space.

Not exact matches

Ribbing aside, it may be more accurate to think of WeWork as a B2B version of Starbucks, with its market cap of almost $ 80 billion, rather than measly Regus.

Nevertheless, I did encounter some buffering with my connection, given that my home upload speed is a measly one megabit per second.

He ranked it a Sell with a price target of a measly $ 1.75 in June.

The biggest problem with business plans is that they offer pages of blah, blah, blah about the wonderfulness of the entrepreneur and the whiz - bang product followed by a few measly paragraphs about how every person in China is going to be a customer.

Compared with other developed countries, our parental benefits rank somewhere between the United States» measly 12 unpaid weeks and, say, Sweden's 16 - month paid leave.

A measly 3 % said they would comply with any old site's request to turn off the blocker.

For the 28 % of cards with the lowest ratings, in contrast, they should only loosen limits by a measly $ 127.

With the stock market in a free - fall, fixed - income investors anxious about coming interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve might feel a little better about boring bonds and their measly coupons.