Examples of pittance

• Today, runners are paid a pittance by comparison, not even enough to support themselves.

• There is precise information about the celebration of the anniversaries of founders and benefactors throughout the year, with appropriate pittances and almsgiving.

• The services which can be run on this pittance are minimal and generally fall down in terms of distribution.

• Less developed countries produce mainly agricultural products, at a pittance, for consumption by the rich world.

• For that we received a miserable pittance, and those were the conditions under private enterprise.

• Many of them are getting such a miserable pittance that it means actual starvation.

• Take the case of the ill-paid workman with his miserable pittance of approved benefit.

• It was pitiful to see her trying to do her best to manage on a mere pittance.

• On the one hand, the amount collected from tolls is a mere pittance: on the other hand, the collection causes delay and disrupts the traffic.

• Are the profits amassed by western companies by making children under ten work in poor countries for a pittance clean money?

• At the same time, many at the sharp end are living in near poverty on a pittance.

• Many thousands of men have lost their all and have gone for the small pittance which is paid to the soldier or the non-commissioned officer.

• Below these peaks are hundreds of novelists and writers, who give pleasure to thousands and who are paid a pittance in return.

• We cannot continue to spend a pittance fighting cancer and a fortune supporting tobacco.

• The younger generation works long days for a pittance, causing physical and mental weariness.