Sentence examples for a small pittance from inspiring English sources
Grattan had paid Con Tonan a small pittance, all he could, and had never thought of him as a task.
That would be a small pittance and a big pity.
But U.S. funding for a Global Fund for Education would come exclusively from the U.S. foreign aid budget, and a small pittance of it, at that.
It's not just that they didn't – quite – die for nothing: you'll always be able to pass on a small pittance to the next captain along, be it a favoured deck gun or a trusted officer, even if you can't afford to commission a will.
It's not just that they didn't quite die for nothing: you'll always be able to pass on a small pittance to the next captain along, be it a favored deck gun or a trusted officer, even if you can't afford to commission a will.
"For the conservatives backing Mitt Romney, these multimillion-dollar investments are small pittances compared to the return they will make when their industries are deregulated and their tax cuts even more than President Bush prescribed," said Bill Burton, a spokesman for Priorities USA, a super PAC backing Mr. Obama.
At Morgan Stanley, for instance, cash bonuses were capped at $125,000 - a small fortune to many Americans, but a pittance for investment bankers and traders used to seven-figure payouts.
He told Judge M. L. Tahilyani that he was broke and tired of his job working for decorator in Jhelum, a small town in Pakistan, and making a pittance.
A small, one-line part in a movie with a well-respected director may seem like a pittance, but it means you're working with the best.
I was tall and galumphing around, and I don't think they looked at me and thought, 'A star in the making.'" It was 1978 and Weaver had been living in New York, sharing a flat with a friend and earning a pittance through small film and TV parts.
For the Bush campaign, it is such a pittance, so small a drop in the bucket of what they have spent in court filing fees alone that the campaign spokesman, Tucker Eskew, said tonight that it did not really matter.
