Sentence examples for paltry fee from inspiring English sources

It will include the home of the rightwing populist Jörg Haider, who lives on 4,000 acres (1,600 hectares) that once belonged to a Jewish couple and which his family legally acquired for a paltry fee.

Moonves bit, but he imposed tough terms: No matter what Burnett spent to produce Survivor, CBS would pay him a paltry fee of only $35,000 per episode; Burnett would have to make up the shortfall by pocketing half of the revenue from ads, which he had to help sell.

The uptick in streaming of electronic music is a small bright spot on the landscape, though the paltry fee artists collect on streaming leaves little to celebrate there.

The wage loss benefits in particular are paltry fees for a corporation like the NFL, which pulls in $9bn in revenue yearly.

Activists told VICE News the paltry fees have exposed how little is expected from the bottling companies.

I mentioned Metafilter; it's one of my favorite sites because the paltry $5 entry fee is, for the carrion eaters and rank trolls of the internet, an insurmountable barrier, or rather one they don't care to penetrate.

It will also be able to lease the rest of the land back for a paltry $50-an-acre 50-an-acre 50-an-acre

And if they bid more, CNET has to pay a relatively paltry $35 million breakup fee (good analysis of this here).

From the peak of the dot-com era in March 2000, stocks have risen about 10 percent, a paltry gain once fees, taxes and risks are factored in.

I continue to curse my inability to be in the right place at the right time, specifically on United's website for 15 minutes on September 12 when fares for most domestic United flights dropped to zero, save for a few paltry taxes and fees.

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