We had already done pretty much everything else, from kicking the tyres (as the lads in Solihull, the West Midlands city where Land Rovers are assembled, would have it) to packing the relatively meager space behind the back seat.
The Nets' extraordinary success at generic Continental Arena -- their 17-1 home record is the best in the National Basketball Association, and they were 33-8 at home last season -- seems eerily out of proportion to the team's meager success in filling the seats.
For a meager $20 or $30 or $90, you can pay to sit in a seat you formerly occupied for free.
"For some, the corner seats in clubs under the meager covering of a sheet of newspaper.
As the Bengals celebrated, Roethlisberger stood on the sideline, alone, hands on his hips, wearing the same grim expression as he did about 45 minutes later, when he walked slowly through a corridor, holding an infant's car seat as he pondered another meager performance.
He was so determined to excel that he rose from the saddle and sprinted the final 100 meters to the line -- a meager stretch during which 144 other riders remained seated.
Like Mr. Majomder those clustered around him, some so frantic to board the aircraft that they had abandoned their last meager possessions in the scramble to get a seat, could bid farewell to the suffocating heat and stomach-wrenching hunger of the desert camps.
Those newcomers include Ryan Nordstrom, who rolled into town not long ago with a dozen empty cans of energy drink in his passenger seat and $11 in his pocket, the meager remainder of the fuel money his sister had given him when he left Michigan.
Yet, all that could change as recent large-scale research finds that Yelp reviews can significantly impact businesses: A meager half-star increase on Yelp's 5-star rating makes it 30 to 49percentt more likely that restaurants will sell out their evening seats.
With his main autoparts supplier and prodigal son Delphi in dire straits, a puny company share price, meager sales of its SUVs and corporate whirligig Kirk Kerkorian Kirk Kerkorian stalking a seat on his board, General Motors Chairman and Chief Executive Officer G. Richard Rick Wagonerer G. Richard Rick Wagonerer has more than most on his plate.
I have been working in the town where the county seat is, where I had a small [illegible] to keep a meager living.
