Sentence examples for meager figure from inspiring English sources

Until then, the typical foreign soldier locked up in the Northern Alliance cells will cut a far more meager figure.

That would seem a meager figure for a player widely viewed as the top cornerback in the N.F.L.

A meager figure, however, compared to 43 IPOs in 2008 and 273 in 2007.

The company's response to those meager figures is – give it time.

However, that figure is meager compared with Horizon 2020's draft budget for 2014, slated at €8.8 billion in current prices.

Chief executives have been known to compare their comparatively meager paychecks to ballplayers, figuring if Shaquille O'Neal makes $30 million for stuffing a ball through a hoop, who can gainsay their just rewards.

The 1995 figures that seem meager by 2015 standards, would be far beyond any figure Sargent's imagination could grasp in 1915.

He chuckled at the figure, recalling his meager salary.