The phrase "a paltry fee" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means a very small or insignificant amount of money. Example: The lawyer asked for a paltry fee of $50 for his services, which was a pleasant surprise for his client.
The uptick in streaming of electronic music is a small bright spot on the landscape, though the paltry fee artists collect on streaming leaves little to celebrate there.
Activists told VICE News the paltry fees have exposed how little is expected from the bottling companies.
It will also be able to lease the rest of the land back for a paltry $50-an-acre 50-an-acre 50-an-acre
Why was Wal-Mart fighting a paltry fine so hard?
From the peak of the dot-com era in March 2000, stocks have risen about 10 percent, a paltry gain once fees, taxes and risks are factored in.
His requested fee: a paltry $250,000.
If you absolutely must drive somewhere, consider two words to keep you from paying the outrageous $40 garage fee for a paltry few hours: Muni Meter.
The fee, currently a paltry sum of $1.35 per month for each of his cow and calf pairs, is collected to offset a small portion of the public cost of maintaining the grass, water, roads, and the health of the lands he grazes.
When I failed to understand the procedure for the annual renewal, Google shut off my extra storage and summarily bounced all incoming mail with a "PERMANENT FAILURE" header (contrary to spec, because "full inbox" is a transient fail) until I paid a paltry $5 in extra storage fees.
The government's main source of official revenues is a paltry $1m a month in port fees.Mohamoud Ahmed Nur, the mayor of Mogadishu, is optimistic that life will start to improve.
