Sentence examples for paltry rate from inspiring English sources

Tullow, together with China's CNOOC and Total of France, will start pumping it next year, initially at a paltry rate of 5,000 barrels a day (b/d).

"We will lose something essential about the gestalt" of the city, said the Mayor's deputy, if the paltry rate of construction goes on any longer.

Mr Stack, whose firm is now called SRC Holdings and employs 1,200 people in various businesses (of which The Great Game of Business is one), says one employee noticed the company had built up a big pile of cash that was earning a paltry rate of interest.

They argue that cash, invested largely in government securities gives a paltry rate of return.

But the paltry rate at which financial aid is offered to international students raises serious doubts about the depth of that belief.

The bad news is that some big-name banks pay paltry rates.

Although the notion is aimed at banks to encourage them to lend more, it could see the paltry rates on savings accounts drop even further.

Maike Currie, associate investment director at Fidelity Personal Investing, said that while removing the income tax on interest earned on cash "makes for a great headline", it would do little for cash savers who had to contend with paltry rates.

WORLD economic growth is faltering, the International Monetary Fund said this week, as it forecast that most of the large developed economies would either shrink this year or grow at paltry rates of 2 percent or less.

Add to it paltry rates of economic growth, widespread poverty and income inequality, vast urban slums and a police force considered brutal and despised by the poor, and it is little surprise that the island nation's homicide rate is always among the handful of the world's highest.

Current accounts were a bigger source of income than mortgage lending (19%), credit cards (13%) and savings accounts (17%).For consumers, the biggest cost arises from the paltry rates of interest that banks pay on balances held in current accounts, usually less than 0.5%, which compares with rates of 5% or 6% now available on savings accounts.