Sentence examples for A trifling amount from inspiring English sources

It is not a trifling amount – more than the average UK house price and enough to buy a chocolate box cottage with acres of land in Northumberland.

There is some explicit sex here, quite a few photographs of genitals and a trifling amount of bondage, but the same publisher's "Mapplethorpe" makes "Peek" look like the raunchier daydreams of Little Bo Peep.

[C7.] An Untapped Immigrant Market The big Americans banks have captured only a trifling amount of the business of handling immigrants' remittances of money back home, according to a report by a nonprofit research group.

Several Conference teams have spent vastly more than that in an effort to break into League Two, and it just does not sit right that such a trifling amount can not only buy you a professional football team, but one good enough to put the skids under Wigan, Arsenal, and Aston Villa.

And the hundreds of millions of corporate and entertainment dollars flowing into Times Square have come in large part, many developers say, because of a comparatively trifling amount pledged by a single company, Walt Disney.

A believable rise of, say, 25percentt in China's imports from Japan, over a course of years, would help Japanese gross domestic product to grow by an extra 0.3percentt -- no trifling amount in an era of economic shrinkage.

The trifling amount of a parking fine is worth paying for the greater convenience.

per annum, finds that we practically prohibit from our consumption every important article which it produces except to the trifling amount of 300,000l.

And since I'm trying to be honest here and confess everything, sometimes after eating even that trifling amount I would go to the men's room and not throw up, but smoke an expensive cigar until the feeling passed, if it had existed in the first place.

"Although I know that you have spent a tremendous amount of your time and that of other people to try to improperly save trifling amounts such as 75 cents a day in spring training rooming allowances," Miller wrote, "still I cannot believe you would deliberately tell untruths to the players in order to avoid paying a $100 bet which you lost".

In a country where tax evasion is regarded almost as a national sport, they often find that the owners of expensive boats have declared trifling amounts of income, or none at all.