Sentence examples for hardly pay for from inspiring English sources

Even if they had electricity which 400m Indians do not they could hardly pay for it.

One museum asked him to make two hundred Clovis replicas for twenty dollars each, a price that would hardly pay for the cost of his stone.

Scots seem to like public spending more than the English do, but 3p in the pound will hardly pay for their ambitions.

Its stock of savings is diminishing, and though it is riddled with misgivings about the presence of American troops in Japan so long after the second world war, it can hardly pay for its own defence.

But muling these things around hardly pays for their freight.

But like many other NBC executives, Wright totally disparaged the comparison to the live telecasts of events being carried by Canadian television, noting that NBC could hardly pay $705 million for rights to the Games and then run them live from 3 a.m. to 8 a.m, as the CBC is doing.

Fish for the most part don't bite and hardly pay humans any attention but still I was frightened.

Meanwhile, the Douglases' claim for additional damages was refused and the £14,500 they were awarded would hardly even pay for their flights.

"He was at Villa for so many years and did great service, got them £12m after Villa hardly paid a penny for him as well, so I thought it was a bit unfair.

That's hardly enough to pay for all our fast cars, lavish houses and gold-plated fountain pens, let alone food and a mortgage.

Even the best teams have budgets of about $2 million, hardly enough to pay for the resources and the players needed in a professional league.