Sentence examples for in paltry from inspiring English sources

Even if the books were bringing in paltry sales, hit films like the Batman and Superman series have grossed $1 billion in the U.S., excluding video rentals and sales and an endless parade of merchandise.

COSTUME FANTASIES Vintage drawings of stage costumes survive in paltry numbers since theater, dance and opera companies usually focused on staying in business and planning new shows rather than filing paperwork.

While few people expected to get back all they owned, even skeptics decried what they described as convoluted, lengthy administrative and legal processes that too often result in paltry settlements paid in low-value government bonds.

Documentation of the quality Mr. Daniels provides is prohibitively expensive ($10,000 to $15,000), resulting in paltry archival options and little hope of a wider audience for shows that take months or years to develop only to disappear after limited runs.

Even when the books brought in paltry sales, such hit films as the Batman and Superman series have grossed $1 billion in the U.S., excluding video rentals and sales and an endless parade of merchandise.

Cendant, owner of Avis car rental, says Inn hotels and Century 21 real estate, on Monday said a stronger-than-expected rebound in travel and a booming mortgage business helped second-quarter earnings surge from a year ago, when a charge resulted in paltry profits.

"Bonfire of the Vanities" cost about $40 million to produce and more to promote, but it took in a paltry $3.1 million in its opening weekend.

Despite some fulsome praise I'm Not There – even with its star-laden lineup – only managed to bring in a paltry $11.6m around the world.

The only other new film opening this weekend is "The Quiet Ones," a horror film that may only bring in a paltry $5 million in opening weekend sales.

Even these visitors, however, are scarce: fewer than 4,000 short-stay heli-tourists visited Kronotsky in 2012, paltry in comparison to the nearly three million who visit Yellowstone's Old Faithful.

The Egyptian people might argue that they also have a right to the first increase in a paltry minimum wage in years – without being sued for a believed $100 million for achieving it.