Sentence examples for pitiful rate from inspiring English sources

Even so, her Britannia account is paying a particularly pitiful rate.

Even if it isn't, 1.4 per cent is a pretty pitiful rate of expansion.

Economists and politicians have puzzled over the struggles workers have experienced in recent decades: the pitiful rate of growth in wages, rising inequality, and the growing flow of national income to profits and rents rather than pay cheques.

The regulator is also clearly trying to shame providers into upping some of these pitiful rates.

With a population that is both ageing and shrinking, Japan's savings must earn more than today's pitiful rates.

It's a trend that America has seen before: When the country was electrifying in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of communities including Longmont formed their own electric utilities as a way of protesting the pitiful rates and service provided by private companies.

Even with the pitiful exchange rate, France is the greatest source of wine bargains in the world.

Although this might seem like a pitiful response rate -- one-five-hundredth of one percent is ruinous in any other market -- this one search for spam clients could yield Colbert as much as $14,000.

It's one of many contributing factors to a pitiful over rate.

Savers fearful of locking into pitiful interest rates may be enticed by a slew of accounts that guarantee returns from any future rate rises.

Their offspring, roped in as translators, are in no hurry to disabuse them.This helps to explain the pitiful employment rates among Britain's Somalis (see second chart).