Sentence examples for by a meager from inspiring English sources

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

Last week, the European Central Bank cut interest rates by a meager quarter of a percentage point, akin to giving two aspirin to a patient with pneumonia.

Especially blatant is the institutional bias against the great Willem de Kooning, represented here by a meager four paintings placed almost at random.

But, on Friday, with his campaign hobbled by a meager war chest and historically low popularity ratings, he announced that he was giving up the race.

She flounders in bills and a sense of futility, is pregnant by a meager lover who rarely comes to town, and not unnaturally, she can't sleep.

Already debilitated by a meager diet and exhausted by days of marching and fighting, hundreds of men died from preventable diseases like scurvy or a lack of basic medical attention.

Sheryl Sandberg, for instance, is separated from the rest of the Facebook universe by a meager 2.92 degrees.

Average weekly wages for some 80percentt of the American work force have risen by a meager2.8percentnt over the last year, with the gains more than reversed by increases in the prices of food and fuel.

And there are signs that the contagion from the south is migrating north and beginning to drag down Germany's export-driven economy, which is expected to grow by a meager 0.4 percent this year, adding another potential source of voter discontent to Ms. Merkel's concerns.

The measure carried by a 62percenttoto 38percentt margin.

Unmarried women support Hillary Clinton by a 52% margin.