Sentence examples for derisory amount from inspiring English sources

This derisory amount is simply not enough.

After seven years he is awarded a derisory amount.

I had made my contribution but it was a derisory amount.

After seven years he is awarded a derisory amount and the home secretary tells you that there is no appeal against this award.

Once rich-country pension funds are earning more than a derisory amount on staid investments at home, they will be far more reluctant to venture into anything "exciting" abroad, even if the spread between domestic and foreign rates remains the same in absolute terms.

Boo, desolate after being offered only a derisory amount of magazine space to write up seven years of research into the largest housing project in Washington DC, was galvanised by a friend who advised: "Subsidise their lack of interest with your surplus.

But Southwark council are currently trying to force home owners from the neighbouring 2,700 home Aylesbury Estate, again offering derisory amounts for London properties in the way of compensation.

Shareholders in Argentaria are being offered a derisory sum for control of their bank.

Mills made it plain she thought this was a derisory sum.

The recipients scorned this amount as being derisory.

ActionAid's groundbreaking Calling Time report found that Accra Brewery's tax bills for the four years amounted to a derisory £216,000.