Sentence examples for poor a bit from inspiring English sources

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Hardy hibiscus should be quite happy with one meal of compost and well-rotted manure and, if your soil is poor, a bit of bone meal, applied when growth starts in late spring.

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The Lin phenomenon shows no sign of abating — Sports Illustrated is putting him on the cover for a second straight week — and Charles P. Pierce writes on Grantland.com that perhaps we should be letting up on the poor guy a bit.

He is mystified that juries put people in prison who are later exonerated or "for ludicrously inappropriate offenses — being poor, desperate, a bit mentally ill, and entangled in the drug trade".

But as Mr Basu noted in his book, the adviser's objectives are not always quite the same as the government's.To help the poor plod a bit faster out of deprivation, the government will spend almost 1.9 trillion rupees ($41 billion) this year on social services and rural development—including education, health and a workfare scheme for the rural poor by the end of this fiscal year.

"Poor" is a bit of a misnomer here — figure skating has a per-capita G.D.P. per medal won of about eighteen thousand five hundred dollars (comparable to Trinidad and Tobago), but that's still higher than the per-capita G.D.P. of more than half of the world's nations.

"There was some poor thinking, a bit of kamikaze cricket up front losing three wickets for not many.

But the requirement was that there were to be no poor people, because obviously poor people are a bit depressing and they don't sell the adverts.

Poor Ada deserves a bit of credit".

Why shouldn't poor Adam get a bit sad?

Greece is like a much older version of Mississippi — forever poor and living a bit too much off its richer neighbors.

Yes, you're reading those times right: almost two full minutes of vomit, most of it landing on some poor actress in a bit part.

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