Sentence examples for trifling amounts from inspiring English sources

His other books include "Of Time, Work and Leisure" (1962), in which he contended that there was no leisure, or only trifling amounts of it, in the United States.

Carnegie felt that even the poor could be shown that public giving, which benefits the masses, is "more valuable to them than if scattered among them through the course of many years of trifling amounts".

"Although I know that you have spent a tremendous amount of your time and that of other people to try to improperly save trifling amounts such as 75 cents a day in spring training rooming allowances," Miller wrote, "still I cannot believe you would deliberately tell untruths to the players in order to avoid paying a $100 bet which you lost".

In one passage, Carnegie writes that making a large charitable gift is "a much more potent force for the elevation of our race'' than dividing the money into "trifling amounts" for distribution as donations or higher wages, which would likely be "wasted in the indulgence of appetite".

per annum, finds that we practically prohibit from our consumption every important article which it produces except to the trifling amount of 300,000l.

It is not a trifling amount – more than the average UK house price and enough to buy a chocolate box cottage with acres of land in Northumberland.

There is some explicit sex here, quite a few photographs of genitals and a trifling amount of bondage, but the same publisher's "Mapplethorpe" makes "Peek" look like the raunchier daydreams of Little Bo Peep.

A believable rise of, say, 25percentt in China's imports from Japan, over a course of years, would help Japanese gross domestic product to grow by an extra 0.3percentt -- no trifling amount in an era of economic shrinkage.

[C7.] An Untapped Immigrant Market The big Americans banks have captured only a trifling amount of the business of handling immigrants' remittances of money back home, according to a report by a nonprofit research group.

And since I'm trying to be honest here and confess everything, sometimes after eating even that trifling amount I would go to the men's room and not throw up, but smoke an expensive cigar until the feeling passed, if it had existed in the first place.

Several Conference teams have spent vastly more than that in an effort to break into League Two, and it just does not sit right that such a trifling amount can not only buy you a professional football team, but one good enough to put the skids under Wigan, Arsenal, and Aston Villa.