The meagre number of installations?
However, just lifting out T-splines as the only solution can be considered to be a bit meagre, because many more alternatives have been proposed in the literature over the years.
Even though I sacrificed the best years of my life pursuing a PhD in political theory, tackling these questions all by myself is a bit above my meagre grad-student paygrade.
For the past decade – since a director spotted his wispy beard and corrugated cheeks – Zhao, 87, has supplemented meagre benefits with his earnings from bit parts in films and TV melodramas.
"Our friends thought we were a bit mad, spending our meagre wages on travel," they admit.
Albums sometimes take a while to work their way into your subconscious, but I can't help being a bit disappointed: Tomorrow's Modern Boxes seems a meagre, downbeat offering from a man who brought us the melodic majesty of Let Down and the muttering, murderous menace of Knives Out.
Those with migrant-worker parents, who are a bit better off, may have a chunk of pork; others bring a meagre potato or vegetable.
Even the worst phone line can be enough to maintain a meagre but consistent data connection, sometimes at rates as low as 300 baud (bits per second)—a term that is unknown to most people under 30.
Having to live just one life, without the possibility of revising it, deleting its boring bits and polishing up its successes, has always seemed to me a meagre fate.
I was beginning to think that I, the great writer, was in actual fact a bit of a useless cock with nothing much to say for himself other than a meagre collection of articles posted online.
