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Those are huge numbers and could mean the difference between a paltry paycheck and a big fat one.

After that, make up the difference between the insurance company's paltry "reasonable and customary" fee schedule and the actual fee.

Finally, if we look at the percentage of crime in the most crime-afflicted units (the top 10%), we see that this drops and the differences among the units is a paltry 7% (compared to 42% when uninvolved units are included).

Last month's budget, the last one that will make any difference to the 2010 poverty figures, allocated a paltry £200m to child poverty measures, compared to the £4.2bn that campaigners say was required.

"Inflation may have fallen but thanks to the paltry interest paid on savings, it is actually making little difference to savers after the taxman has had his share," said Moneyfacts.co.uk editor Sylvia Waycot.

The difference between parties this election has never looked more paltry: Cameron has pledged to extend austerity and slash welfare in plans hidden from the electorate.

Those concessions may seem paltry next to the protections of full employment, but they will make a difference to drivers like Michael Goodman of Northridge. .

The only difference between their lot and slavery is the payment, probably to their parents, of a paltry $14 a month.

Paltry facts!

It's so paltry.

A paltry fifteen minutes.

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