Sentence examples for much more meager from inspiring English sources

Having grown fat on the boom of recent years, retailers now face some tough choices as they are forced to adjust to much more meager sales gains.

NSF director Rita Colwell, although obliged to support the president's much more meager request, nevertheless calls the bill a "terrific show of bipartisan support by Congress".

The name now synonymous with untold billions influencing our elections had its origins as a much more meager offspring in the same spirit of under-the-table politicking.

There are glimpses, here and there in "NW," of that cacophonous metropolis — a city in constant flux as waves of immigrants and fierce youth reinvent it year by year, day by day — but "NW" is a much smaller, more meager book than "White Teeth".

Consider bringing in someone from Asia or Russia--they'll do the same job for much cheaper and are much more appreciative of your meager benefits.

"The data cited by the media is very meager and much more study is needed to draw any meaningful conclusions".

Like the three other miners interviewed — and those who have spoken to other media — Mr. Ojeda, a 24-year-veteran of the mines, refuses to go into great detail over what happened in the next two weeks, as men wilted in the heat and shrank, their tiny rations of tuna and crackers too meager to do much more than keep them alive.

They are to do all this and much more with a calm, cool demeanor, on a meager paycheck, and with minimal recognition--as teachers, our "caps" runneth over.

As an owner of extensive lands in the sandy Gooi and of family estates in the not much more fruitful Veluwe, where several relatives were landowners and struggled to subsist on meager means, van Rensselaer had an advantage — his agents needed to employ little persuasion to induce some Gooiers and Veluwers to migrate to more fruitful regions where the farming would be less difficult.

But waiters make much more from tips than busboys, who must be content with the often-meager amounts that waiters share with them.

There was no one to stop her from losing her meager savings in a lottery scam, and no one to turn to, much more disturbingly, after she became the victim of a sexual assault.