Sentence examples for not very affluent from inspiring English sources

'I'm the son of an immigrant, I started off in not very affluent circumstances,' he tells me.

For a family like the Dodgsons, living far from the metropolis in not very affluent circumstances in a draughty rectory, illustrated magazines such as Punch were the principal vehicle by which pictures reached them, and they contributed a crucial element in the world that formed the creator of Alice.

Born in the town of Xi'e in Nanyang Commandery (north of the modern Nanyang City in Henan province), Zhang Heng came from a distinguished but not very affluent family.

My parents weren't very wealthy, but they bought a house there in the 1960s, and the suburb grew around them and became a very affluent part of Sydney.

"Not Luxembourg," Remy joked of the very affluent little principality where the carrier offers services.

The economy needs stimulus now; it doesn't need tax cuts for the very affluent five years from now.

34 Although childhood cancers are a leading cause of childhood death in affluent countries, they are not very common, making ad hoc follow-up studies rare.

It's a grammar school in a very affluent area, and it didn't surprise me that most – if not all – the students on his politics and history course also went.

"Singapore is a very affluent society, we don't really need the same sort of care and attention as in 1976, so the objectives of the foundation has evolved since then," she says.

You can walk into a very affluent world, even though that's not where I'm from.

"It did not bear out that way — we put them in very affluent areas too," usually for customers who want to move their items during renovations, he said.