Sentence examples for paltry at from inspiring English sources

But attendance figures in both countries remains paltry, at 4.5m and 6m respectively.

So far, efforts to do so have been voluntary and paltry at best.

The cuts made to domestic tariffs earlier this year were paltry at just 2.5% and short-changed most customers, who are rightly angry".

But it is ludicrously paltry, at one fiftieth of what he is about to spend on a single, upmarket railway line, the glamorous HS2.

And so the bonuses Wall Street received last year, billed as paltry at the time, are turning out to be among the most lucrative payouts ever.

The number of American border agents looking atCanada seems paltry, at about 2,200, compared with 18,600 dealing with Mexico; but the former figure was only 340 in 2001.Since that time the United States has also added aircraft with sensor arrays, thermal cameras, video surveillance and unmanned aircraft to watch remoter areas.

PRS says that only 35% of setlists were completed at the 2011 Creamfields festival – and a paltry 15% at Glade.

The Words of the Prophets Were Written on a Dry Erase Board: Much has been made of the paltry attendance at Tropicana Field (22,820 Tuesday night, officially), but at least Rays fans are showing initiative.

Because the businesses he had bought were of better quality than NatWest's own paltry attempts at investment banking, they would help to raise standards at the rest of NWM.

Just look at Will Ferrell's big-budget Land of the Lost, which earned a paltry $50 million at the U.S. box office this summer.

Much, if not all of this, was down to the paltry attendance at the Kassam Stadium.