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

Of the total cost (capital and recurrent) 40% was spent on staff salaries and a meager amount of 8.2% was spent on purchase of drugs & supplies (an imbalance in resource allocation is evident).

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

Last year, the top eight airlines earned $4 billion with total revenue of $122 billion, showing a meager profit margin of 3.3 percent.

A stark measure of that impatience was the fact that Halla, despite having 16 subsidiaries, recorded total 1996 revenues of only $6.3 billion and a meager profit of $28 million.

While the U.S. has supplied a meager form of broadband to 20 million households (20% of the total), Korea has connected some 11 million households (73% of the Korean total) with real multimegabit pipes.

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

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

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

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

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

Ms. Madoff proposes to tax every "heiress" at 55percentt and provide a meager exclusion of $1 million to $2 million.