Примери за paltry

• How do we explain all these paltry records?

• The paltry amounts of crops and hedge-wood taken indicate that what was in most cases stolen was intended for immediate consumption rather than for resale.

• Regional integration schemes among less developed countries have yielded paltry results largely because these economies are often only loosely connected to one another.

• Without it the information reported here will look very paltry, but in fact in its context it does contribute to our knowledge of this chant.

• Although they are rather paltry, given their position they must have contained the remains of honoured personages, probably rulers of the pre-imperial period.

• What aggravated the problem of developing a genuine bureaucracy was the paltry level of salaries.

• Their paltry and insignificant level has already been considered.

• His old possessions seem paltry to him now.

• Observing the price volume graph will give us a clear indication that the price levels have come down drastically over the years and seem to have stabilised at paltry levels.

• Even so, during this period the membership of such organizations was paltry, and their operations tended to be both on a small scale and sporadic in nature.

• Hence, their furious reaction last month when they closed all but a paltry three of the reform-minded daily newspapers.

• The paltry sums pledged, the lack of clarity concerning their allocation and the individualistic logic behind the vehicle promoted testify to this.

• Similarly, we would like to highlight the paltry amount of credits made available.

• The allocation for administrative expenses is decidedly paltry at a mere 5 %.

• The blow is softened at times by the "well maintained" payment, but that is a paltry sum compared with the full market value.