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• At that point, in late 1942, there were pitifully few psychiatrists on active duty, and they were already swamped with patients.

• The child worker stood pitifully at the centre of classical accounts of the first industrial revolution.

• In view of the existing and probable future needs this part has been pitifully small.

• Virtually nothing had been done to assure communications while transport facilities were pitifully inadequate, with hospital bases primitive and remote from the front.

• Those trying to describe the effects of art or music in words would grasp at metaphors which struck the modern man as being pitifully unscientific and reeking of subjectivity.

• Nothing was done that could possibly injure this vicar in his worldly affairs, in his office, or his pitifully small stipend.

• In those circumstances, are not 10 rubber boats and three helicopters pitifully inadequate in comparison with the actual need?

• If one takes such an industry as coal, has re-organisation, has the vast expenditure on mechanisation as yet produced anything but pitifully inadequate results?