Sentence examples for paltry part from inspiring English sources

A transplant is an option only for a woman who has a thick enough area of hair from the back and sides to "donate" to a more paltry part of her scalp.

Even after several years of tipping my paltry part-time wages into their till, I was barely on nodding terms with the staff.

Maybe that's a good thing – at least my applications were up to scratch – but when you've reached the final three for six different jobs and spent most of your paltry part-time wage on travelling to London, Reading, Tunbridge Wells, Leeds and Sheffield (for one of those jobs I had to go back three times) then it quickly becomes horrific.

Hence, industrial SMEs make a paltry contribution to generating employment in Iran.

Do you think it is fair for the author's wife's lawyer to demand half the author's paltry advance as part of her proposed divorce settlement, even though she knew full well that the advance had immediately been spent on regrouting the tiles in the bathroom?

In contrast, he parted with a paltry €41.3m on CSKA Moscow of the Russian Premier League, as part of a three-year sponsorship deal with his former oil company.This lack of investment means the most talented Russian players seek fame and fortune on foreign shores.

But being part of the paltry 2.8% of the population riding to work, I am not the target market.

The deals that AOL did with WorldCom and Qwest are part of the paltry $49 million in revenue that AOL alerted the Securities and Exchange Commission SECC) it may have improperly accounted for on Aug.14, so there's really no additional scandal here.

But he still faces long-term challenges, including a lack of money and a paltry campaign infrastructure in most parts of the country.

In 1995 the two embarked on a plan to buy Norilsk Nickel, paying a paltry $250 million and investing $300 million as part of the deal.

CNN also reported on the paltry numbers of mortgage adjustments made as part of the Making Home Affordable program.