Sentence examples for paltry size from inspiring English sources

The comparatively paltry size of this universe reflects tepid enthusiasm all around, many investment advisers say.

Ford announced that it was re-tooling three North American truck plants to make compact European cars of a type once mocked by Americans for their paltry size and puny engine power.

He was, on the surface, an unremarkable fragment of London's multi-ethnic culture and, in typical London style, he was fed up with the city's drabness, the stress of everyday life, and "tired of our meagre existence and the paltry size of our flat, where the warring couple next door plagued us through paper-thin walls".

"While it's welcome that Shell has accepted its guilt, the paltry size of the fine handed down will do little to deter future poor behaviour by it or the rest of the oil and gas industry," said Lang Banks, director of WWF Scotland.

If you've moved into an apartment anytime within the last two years, it's a safe bet, from New York to Tokyo, that the bane of your urban interior is your paltry kitchen size; simply put, between the quarter-size dinette and the single cubby/cabinet combo, we're keeping cooking corners worthy of The Rescuers. .

But the $50 million added to the budget for the National Endowment the Arts is still a paltry sum given the size of the stimulus.

My yield was paltry because of the small size of the plants at flowering.

The United States pledged to increase the number of refugees it admits to 110,000 a year, from 85,000 this year — an increase that some critics say is paltry, given the country's size and resources.

Foreign investment is paltry for an economy of its size, and R&D spending is low.

That may sound like a paltry amount, but a stake that size is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, based on a market value of $100 billion.

From an apparently free-scoring group stage carnival in which 48 matches produced 136 goals between them, the eight eliminators of the last 16 – admittedly a much smaller sample size – delivered a comparatively paltry 18.