Sentence examples for pittance about from inspiring English sources

By Western standards, the long list of fees -- tuition, dormitory rooms, textbooks, computer access -- may seem a pittance, about $290 a year.

His veterans' charities raised more than $168 million from 2004 to 2006, but spent only a pittance — about 25percentto— to help veterans.

But that is a relative pittance — about what many individual companies pay to a few doctors each year to retain them as consultants.

She grouses about the bill from a visiting nurse, about her pittance of an income, about "the white blood cells out of whack," about having to settle for her maid, Vita, an "affordable live-in".

I realize now that creativity is less about living a hedonistic lifestyle on a pittance and more about actually creating things.

They pay a pittance of 15,000 lire (about $25) for two months course, and many of the most gifted and deserving of them receive scholarships to help pay their expenses in Siena... View Article By Anthony Lane By Jia Tolentino By Andy Borowitz By Rebecca Mead.

Thankfully for all concerned, my liquid drug of choice is the aforementioned white beverage, currently right at the centre of the news world, due to dairy farmers being up in udders about the pittance they get for each pint of the white stuff.

They pay a pittance of 15,000 lire (about $25) for two months course, and many of the most gifted and deserving of them receive scholarships to help pay their expenses in Siena... View Article By Rivka Galchen By Jia Tolentino By Ceridwen Dovey By Malcolm Gladwell.

He paid about $100 million, a pittance for a man whose income taxes make up about half of Chukotka's state budget revenues.

But we're talking about Albany, so some districts get a lot and others a pittance, even though they have about the same number of people.

Their wages nearly tripled from a pittance of 20-25 Indian rupees (about 50 American cents) a day; their children started going to school.