Sentence examples for making a meager from inspiring English sources

Revenues from tourism one of Egypt's biggest money-makers and employers fell 30% to $9bn in 2011 and the industry is only making a meager recovery.

Making a meager living as a housekeeper and laundress, Séraphine (Yolande Moreau) is, when we first encounter her, an eccentric and slightly pathetic local character, a figure of pity and sometimes mockery, her dignity protected by a temperament that is at once sharp and childlike, and by a talent that she views as guided by angels.

But I was still making a meager income, couldn't advance my career, and was filled with incredible negativity.

The families and children living there were scavenging rubbish and making a meager living off of wasted cables and metals.

Consumer prices rose by 0.5% in April, making a 1.6% rise over the year.

He began with making a 50percentturnoverer of his roster to combat the Cardinals' offensive woes.

Chinoin is making a 50percentt return on its prostaglandin investment, company officials said.

For example, a buyer making a 20percentt down payment on a $350,000 house would need a mortgage of $280,000.

With his daughter now in graduate school elsewhere, Mr. Grant sold the property this year for $105,000, making a 17percentt profit.

Terra Firma anticipated making a 20% per annum return on its £4.2bn investment; instead, the business continued to crumble.

In reality, we were making a 5 percent pretax profit in a good year — nothing to write home about.