Sentence examples for pittance with from inspiring English sources

The laments of those forced into the factories, working for a pittance with no chance of escape.

When Cronson watched Horace Grant and Patrick Ewing sign for a pittance with Orlando, he surveyed a landscape in which one midlevel salary exception is parceled out to two established veterans.

A few hundred acres there are planted with malbec, a pittance compared with grapes like sangiovese and cabernet franc, to say nothing of cabernet sauvignon.

In this system, a disequilibrium of the kind represented by the rise of Germany by far the most dynamic industrial power in Europe, yet with an imperial pittance compared with England, France or Russia could only end in war.

For clients, the cost of doing business with Akamai is a pittance compared with the potential losses they face because of network slowdowns.

An artist who rents a space of about 1,700 square feet will pay about $1,500 a month, a relative bargain compared with prices elsewhere and a pittance compared with Manhattan.

Still, with 6,222 total acres of merlot this year, Washington produces a pittance compared with California, which has more than 50,000 acres planted with merlot.

Currently a typical sitcom will stream on Hulu with about two minutes of ads, a pittance compared with the eight minutes of ads on television.

And it was a pittance compared with his wealth.

That is a pittance compared with hedge-fund managers.

That is a pittance compared with the losses in the housing bust.