Sentence examples for puny rate from inspiring English sources
The Communist Party does not want an angry middle class.These political sensitivities are apparent even in the pioneering cities. Chongqing, for example, charges a puny rate (0.5-1.2%) on a tiny number of properties barely 8,500, according to Xinhua, the state news agency.
Few accounts were opened and not much business done.Offshore accounts offered puny rates of interest because banks could do so little with the money.
The BBC presence there is relatively puny – second-rate stuff for England's second city.
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.
A new entry on Thursday, "Prime Suspect," has been more highly regarded and is still on the air, but last week averaged a puny 1.2 rating (about 1.5 million viewers in the 18-49 group).
(Even those puny growth rates may not have fed into higher living standards for the poorest people within those countries: income inequality in developing countries has risen precipitously over the past few decades).All this is not to say that poor countries are destined to stay in poverty.
For example, he claimed the puny 50 per cent top rate of tax would drive 9,000 City workers to Switzerland: in fact, the rate of workers leaving has fallen by 9 per cent.
The "pretend pension" known as a 401(k) plan was never intended to create retirement security but act as a supplement to a regular pension because of the puny employer contribution rate of 3% of pay.
"We'll still serve 'SportsCenter.' " Airwaves ABC's telecast of the National Hockey League All-Star generatedrated a puny 1.7 Nielsen rating, down by 37percentt from last year.
Britain's productivity rate is puny; firms and factories badly need such skilled employees.
