Sentence examples for meager years from inspiring English sources

The expulsion from Afghanistan, Suri later wrote, was followed by "three meager years which we spent as fugitives," dodging the international dragnet by "moving between safe houses and hideouts".

Luxury hotels are reporting a sharp slowdown in business, diners are ordering less to comply with the "empty plate" campaign and office workers are taking to the Internet to complain about meager year-end office parties.

While it has been a meager year everywhere for hits in the network business, NBC has for several years been all but desperate for a new breakout show — or two or three.

The owner or manager of a small company may be able to afford only a very meager year-end bonus.

Advertising, seen as a way to finance the delivery of books, video, news and other content, remains meager despite years of boosterism about its potential.

In other words the maximum sentence for human smuggling would go from a meager one year in jail to the still unacceptable five years in prison.

I went back when Harvey Milk's killer got a meager seven-year sentence and our boiling rage at the injustice exploded into a riot: police cars were burned and windows shattered.

The sales looked especially meager after several years of boom times.

FRANKFURT -- The market for luxury cars is recovering, but makers of the lower-priced cars that most people drive could struggle with meager profits for years to come.

One of the traditions that ordinary Tibetans very much keep alive is to save their meager earnings for years in order to make a pilgrimage to Lhasa.

Hurricanes are ready to rock: The Hurricanes have been mocked for the meager crowds for years, but with this Carolina's first home playoff game in a decade, the parking lots were full of tailgaters more than an hour before puck drop.