Sentence examples for albeit a poor from inspiring English sources

She had no interest in the groom, but a British aristocrat, albeit a poor one, held irresistible appeal for Alva, her socially ambitious mother.

I did in fact have health insurance, albeit a poor plan – whatever I could afford to pay for while I skimped by on TaskRabbit gigs cleaning houses.

Manchester became a centre of the universe, always feeding on cheap labour, mostly women, who, unlike slaves, were paid a wage, albeit a poor one.

But Franco's still cool (albeit a poor man's Rip Empson).

Mutation of this phenylalanine to an alanine converts the enzyme into a sialidase, albeit a poor one, which we confirm by kinetics and NMR, and this allowed us to probe the function of other amino acids.

Degenerate Si behaves as an electrical conductor, albeit a poor one, rather than a semicondutor, preventing formation of a space charge layer during AC interrogation of the sensor interface.

Mr. Sharma describes himself as a high-caste Brahmin, albeit from a poor family, who was educated in the Hindu sacred texts known as the Vedas.

Yet the result is anything but a foregone conclusion given that in 2001 the Irish, albeit on a poor turn-out, rejected the Nice treaty (they later changed their minds).

But Barca produced a confident display, albeit against a poor Rayo side, to reassume control.

Interestingly, when 11 is fitted onto the α1D pharmacophore (Figure 4C), all five features are mapped, albeit with a poor fit for the hydrogen bond acceptor (green).

However, PAMO is also able to convert larger substrates, albeit with a poor activity and selectivity [ 8].