The phrase "a too poor" is not correct in written English.
It is not a standard construction and does not convey a clear meaning.
Example: "He is a too poor student to afford the tuition fees."
Alternatives: "too poor" or "too impoverished".
No family would approve of a daughter marrying a man too poor to afford a dowry and a decent future.
This phenomenon, known as salaula, explains why so few of the women along the road now wear chitenges, and also why a man on a bicycle too poor to have shoes may be wearing a formal dress shirt.
But getting a prosthetic hand to a child too poor to afford one is a goal worth shouting about.
In the Jin dynasty there was an exemplary son named Wu Meng, born to a family too poor to own a mosquito net.
A son of a family too poor to send him to college, Mr. Lee ran away to Seoul and finished college while working as a garbage collector.
A panhandler too poor to afford a real instrument was plucking on a single string stretched between a stick and a washbasin singing: "This land is your land, this land is my land".
Still other companies succumb to Scios' dilemma: an illness too life-threatening for easy testing, and a company too poor to sample a population big enough to overcome this problem.
Yet an initiative -- led by France and Japan and coordinated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -- has demonstrated a rare commitment to preserving a miracle of human ingenuity in a country too poor to do so itself.
The schedule was convenient for a family too poor to afford two pairs of pants.
(Born into a family too poor to send him to college, Mr. Roh educated himself and passed the bar exam without having attended law school).
