Sentence examples for miserable amount from inspiring English sources

MOST HAPPY ENDINGS in professional opera are built on a miserable amount of work.

Seriously, they do nothing: if I were to assemble a Match Of The Day-style highlights package it would be made up of action replays of them nibbling on a frankly miserable amount of cress and sort of moving their heads a bit, but not really.

His analysis of the penal system's shortcomings is also acute: its poor assessment of inmates' needs; the miserable amount of education - as low as five hours a week in local prisons - that inmates receive, when 95% are in need of urgent help; the failure of many sentencing plans to even refer to tackling offending behaviour.

Shuffle a miserable amount of papers and scribble on them furiously, only glancing up at the show once or twice.

Of this, 60% is deposited in variable rate accounts, presumably much of it earning miserable amounts of interest.

That means the whole $7.5 billion dedicated to making IS miserable amounts to a measly 1.3percentt of the total DoD budget.

Post-war Eastern Nigeria is in a state of flux and Iwegbu loses his job and is given, as were most ex-Biafrans, a miserable ex-gratia amount in exchange for his Biafran money.

I started sticking essentials on my credit card and, when you're desperately miserable about the amount of debt you're in, you tell yourself that another £20 won't really deepen the dark hole, and so you try to cheer yourself up in Primark.

We eat shit, and until we confront that fact and reform the process by which food gets from the fields and factories into our big fat miserable gobs, no amount of fad dieting or five-a-day public messaging is going to stop our guts from getting bigger.

Then again, Shakespeare was an artist and wordsmith, able to color a miserable demise with a prolific amount of lyricism. .

Such gloom amounts to a miserable denouement to a difficult but decisive NATO action.