Sentence examples similar to a meager quantity of from inspiring English sources

In graduate school, you also learned to be productive with a meager amount of grant money.

Although a meager amount of xylose was consumed in the first 2 h of fermentation, the added xylose seemed powerless to affect the glucose dominated transcriptional profile.

Furthermore, explains Stirling, in addition to coming ashore with meager quantities of stored fat, "the bears are now being forced to fast for even longer periods because freeze-up is coming progressively later in the fall as well".

It gets by on a meager budget of $10 million a year, or about 5 cents per voter.

But then I typed in the meager quantities, and was shocked — 499 calories for a breakfast that didn't even include bacon or butter.

They were given a meager diet of bread and water each day, and one regular meal every three days, although the quantity and duration often varied relative to the extent of the punishment.

Food supplies used to enter the city from the west, but since Iraqi forces surrounded it, residents are subsisting on meager rations of vegetables and a small quantity of flour distributed by the militants.

He and his colleagues have reared the bacteria on a meager diet of glucose ever since.

In all of last year, the economy grew by a meager tenth of 1percentt.

Still, a meager dose of optimism emerged, and it came from the lips of the most understated Giant.

Despite hefty marketing efforts, banks have captured a meager share of the business.