Sentence examples for meager size from inspiring English sources

The five-month investigation, branded Operation Ivy League by the police, is more noteworthy for its locale than its scope, considering the relatively meager size of the haul and the amount spent on drug purchases by the undercover officers.

Despite the meager size of the protests, government security forces have responded with overwhelming force, killing at least five people since the protests began, including a young child, and wounding and arresting hundreds more.

Despite the meager size of the protests — rarely numbering more than a few hundred people in a country of more than 30 million — they have elicited a crushing response by government security forces, sending tear gas through crowds of bystanders and university dormitories.

Apart from the irony of detraining people you've spent years training while continuing to train lots of others, there's another problem with the BEST program: its meager size.

But don't let its meager size fool you: The Albicetus may have been more ferocious than its distant cousin.

But like potato chips, the snacks beckon to be eaten in handfuls that could easily exceed their meager serving sizes of 1.06, 1.23 and 1.4 ounces.

On a visit to New York (postponed from September because of the terrorist attacks) to meet with Dorothea Endicott, the collegium's executive director, and finalize plans for next season, he took issue with this reporter's suggestion of last year that not even the most ardent authenticist would advocate meager period-size audiences for early music.

The seeming ease with which Mr. Li snatched Cable and Wireless HKT -- despite his company's small size and meager assets, and despite a formidable counterbid by the much larger Singapore Telecommunications -- has troubled some people here.

The equations show that changing the characteristics of the trees had meager effects: Doubling the size of a tree only increases the required wind speed by 9%; likewise, using wood more resistant to fracturing (oak versus pine) increased the critical wind speed by less than 10%.

Your June 19 front-page article "A Plus-Size Retail Revelation: Bigger Women Have Cash, Too" leaves the impression that the offerings for plus-size women are meager at best.

The meager public debate is about the size of the Defense budget, an input to the force development process.