Sentence examples for meager fraction from inspiring English sources

Palm managed a meager fraction of an increase (.4%), but there's no denying that things will get more interesting once they let the Pre (Web OS) out of the bag.

PETER PROVET President and Chief Executive Odyssey House New York, Feb. 13, 2012 To the Editor: California cities' meager tax payments are a tiny fraction of the costs of their misguided "medical marijuana" initiatives.

For a century and a half, the downtrodden tribe ekes out a meager livelihood on a small parcel of land a fraction of what it once had as some of the wealthiest, most awful people in the world turn what were once sacred grounds into their personal playground.

Undergirding the sale prices is an army of workers earning the minimum wage or a fraction above it, living check to check on their meager pay and benefits.

Appetites were meager.

That looks meager.

The results were meager.

Beyond that, a large fraction of the population — about one in four nonelderly Americans, according to a Consumer Reports survey — is underinsured, with "coverage so meager they often postponed medical care because of costs".

We have a meager budget".

"Pill," Sharkey Meager said.

But wages are meager.