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But these tend to be meagre, run-down shops which sell little or no fresh food".

9.16pm GMT 11th over: West Indies 76-2 (Samuels 8, Simmons 1) – Target 153 Two runs and a wicket from Bopara's over – his 18 deliveries thus far have gone for a meagre 17 runs.

He did, however, go past his meagre 51-run haul from the series three years ago and provide the required support role for Cook's eighth Asian masterpiece.

It can't be the meagre cost of running the awards.

In a desperate attempt to get as much science from the lander as possible before its meagre battery reserves ran out, scientists deployed a drill to bore down into the comet surface.

Brazilian Kombis pack a 1.4-litre gasoline engine producing a meagre 78hp (80hp when running ethanol), though it has become less polluting in recent decades thanks to water cooling and catalytic converters.

While still a teenager, the woman's mother, who was the primary breadwinner, was suddenly seriously disabled and the family's meagre insurance cover quickly ran out.

Withers' inaugural Christmas issue in 1940 had run to a meagre 84 pages.

The British group, the Disasters Emergency Committee, or DEC, says that meagre reserves of food will run out in August.

He was a nice, quiet child, they told me, who hunted doves and meerkat, and helped cook and farm as the family eked out a meagre existence: no electricity or running water, starvation wages.

But by the turn of this year they were ludicrously meagre, given the risks that investors run by lending money to countries with a habit of not repaying it.

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