Well, those numbers may now look puny, especially at the top of the range.
Tallec sets the two enemies up across terrain that conjures the futile trench warfare of the Great War, sketching winter, Christmas and spring; their puny attempts at progress; and the patterning of characters caught in a trap.
Miriam Toews's All My Puny Sorrows, at once tender and unquiet, offers a profound reflection on the limits of love, and the sometimes unimaginable challenges we experience when childhood becomes a new country of adult commitments and responsibilities.
They first visited a scientific research centre, a graphite plant, and a missile engine testing facility.Given the relatively puny resources at the inspectors' disposal there will eventually be between 80 and 100 of them in Iraq at any one time this low-key start was unsurprising.
Moody's, a credit-rating agency, reckons that although Islamic finance was worth a puny $18 billion at the end of last year, its potential is close to $235 billion—about half what it estimates as the GDP of Africa's Muslim population.So far, forays from the Gulf into Africa have been limited to a few countries.
Contrast ratio is a little on the puny side at 200 1 but, hey, this thing will probably be inexpensive and, if so, I'd buy one for my iPod Touch.
They are puny replacements for at least 500 grand old trees that were uprooted last month without public consultation.
The commission's puny fines, capped at less than $2 million, are clearly no deterrent against flouting its rules and should be raised.
Jolly nice, too – and that phrase "modern contemporary fashion" could be recycled to describe the madness of those banks who offered those covenant light loans to the private equity industry at puny interest rates.
