The phrase "a meager one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is small, insufficient, or lacking in quantity or quality.
Example: "The budget allocated for the project was a meager one, barely enough to cover the essential expenses."
Alternatives: "a scant one" or "a paltry one."
Ascending the steep path, I arrived at the thicket of gravestones and found a meager one with just a few lichen-specks on it.
So it's pretty convincing that the recovery is going to be a meager one.
But the effort is a meager one so far: less than $50 million in government money has been spent since 1990, mostly on job retraining and grants to help small companies reorganize.
But the recovery could be shaping up to be a meager one, according to leading economic indicators released yesterday by the Conference Board, a research firm in New York.
In other words the maximum sentence for human smuggling would go from a meager one year in jail to the still unacceptable five years in prison.
An IT error just gave us a glimpse at the country's online ecosystem — and it's a pretty meager one.
The sensitive nature of transmitting through the satellite system, which uses a rather meager one watt of power, means it is also easier to lose the uplink connection to the Internet than it is to lose the downlink and the television reception.
If there's an ongoing recovery, but a meager, tentative one at that?
Your results will be meager — one CFR section that mentions Tylenol in passing.
But with Wall Street shedding tens of thousands of jobs and financial industry bonuses expected to be meager, one wonders if there are enough members of the Saudi royal family to sustain the designer stores on Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue.
Lastly, while the possibility is meager, one or two additional modified nucleotides might still exist in rRNAs of H. volcanii.
