(1) She says that the spread of insecure, short-term contracts and part-time work, together with benefits cuts and paltry wage growth, have meant that many people in work are struggling to make ends meet.
(2) Let’s leave that discussion to another day, but imagine a combination of the two – sort of Transformers meets Ex Machina – in which a race of giant sexy robots battles it out with another race of really mean giant sexy robots while paltry human beings look on in awe, and teenage boys (and girls) experience incredibly conflicting and disturbing sensual awakenings in the front row of the Beckenham Odeon.
(3) Only Orange's pay monthly deals come with Wi-Fi access and they only include a paltry 750MB of Wi-Fi browsing – again through BT Openzone's network of hotspots.
(4) In 2010 Bedder 6 paid out total dividends of £1.68m — which saw Clarkson pocket a comparatively paltry £850,000 when his share is calculated and his annual service payment is added in — meaning his income from Bedder 6 has almost tripled year on year.
(5) A paltry 50g of brown rice takes up over a third of your daily calorie count.
(6) By his own lofty standards Cavendish's return of two stage wins from this year's Tour has been paltry and myriad signs of hitherto unseen fallibility, a team that is clearly not good enough to work in his service and suggestions that his star is on the wane will leave him with much to ponder.
(7) If the recession results in interest rates remaining low for years, as many in the City are now predicting, then annuity rates will also remain at paltry levels.
(8) Frontex’s annual budget is a paltry €90m (£65m).
(9) Russia and China , meanwhile, have contributed a paltry $17.8 million and $1.2 million, respectively.
(10) It is the result of rejecting the world of public disengagement and laissez faire that delivered one paltry gold medal in Atlanta just 16 years ago.
(11) The value has now decreased slightly and their share probably sits at a paltry $10m.
(12) In 1959, US intelligence estimates suggested that the USSR would be in possession of between 1,000 and 1,500 nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) compared to America’s paltry 100.
(13) Co-operative customer #3 is making do with a paltry state pension, subsidising the cost of groceries with a fortnightly package from the local food bank and unable to afford energy bills.
(14) The food industry spends over £1bn a year on marketing in the UK, compared with the paltry £14m spent on the government's anti-obesity campaign.
(15) The Italians are earning paltry returns from knocking out white goods in competition with the Chinese and Koreans.
(16) A paltry £1,000 for each marginal Labour candidate hardly buys a poster site.
(17) The sums are so paltry that the animus seems deliberate.
(18) As he itemises the contents of the pawnbroker's shop ("a few old China cups; some modern vases, adorned with paltry paintings of three Spanish cavaliers playing three Spanish guitars; or a party of boors carousing: each boor with one leg painfully elevated in the air by way of expressing his perfect freedom and gaiety …") you sense that Dickens barely knows how to stop.
(19) Yet he went on to pretend a paltry array of stimuli will fix the problem: he cannot possibly believe that loose change from the petty cash will arrest the plunge in employment and growth.
(20) Growth for the UK in 2012 will be a paltry 0.6%, the IMF says.
Pantry
Definition:
(n.) An apartment or closet in which bread and other provisions are kept.
Example Sentences:
(1) Expect it to be talk of floor tonight during 6pm hr vote series October 14, 2013 6.15pm BST Obama: 'there has been some progress' Speaking to reporters at a Washington food pantry, where hailed volunteer work by furloughed federal workers, President Obama said there had been "progress" in the budget talks.
(2) But Miranda Kaunang of GMFS admits more suppliers are needed: “There’s an art to managing a pantry in terms of supplies,” she says.
(3) North said: “When we believe we have got the offer right, and the economics, we will roll it out internationally.” The expansion of Pantry comes on the back of a productive year for Amazon in the UK.
(4) If they end up going to the pantry for the next 10 years, that’s fine.
(5) Over two hours before the Brinnington Local Pantry opens, Christine arrives to take her seat at the head of the queue.
(6) It’s not a normal shop, but it is close to a normal shop.” Cooper is working with Stockport Homes on plans to develop the pantry model across Greater Manchester.
(7) He is a big fan of the Portland Timbers MLS club, volunteers at his church and helps run a food pantry for low-income children.
(8) Belle Gibson said she was inspired to launch The Whole Pantry recipe app in 2013 after being diagnosed with a terminal, malignant brain cancer in 2009 and told she had months to live.
(9) We wanted something that provided dignity and choice.” So the pantry was born.
(10) Brinnington Pantry tops this up with free fruit and vegetables financed from the club’s subscription revenue.
(11) She comes to the food pantry three times a month and shares what she has with her 85-year-old neighbour.
(12) In Virginia, Charles Meng, the executive director of the Arlington Food Assistance Center (Afac), told the Guardian this will increase the burden on families who benefit from his pantry, which serves 1,500 families each week.
(13) Fresh analysis of a collection of 19th-century watercolours by the New Zealand landscape artist JR Smythe, shows that in one portrait, “Summer Pantry” dated 1888, a partially eaten Lamington cake is clearly visible on the counter of a cottage overlooking Wellington Harbour.
(14) I got a bit restless and had a quick snoop in his pantry, where he had little more than lots of bottled water and a few packets of oatcakes.
(15) Herman Carnie: We provide food through a network of 650 pantries, soup kitchens and shelters.
(16) The Whole Pantry forecasted income in October 2014, which was not fulfilled, creating cashflow issues and unforeseen delays on finalising three discussed charitable donations,” the statement said.
(17) 1.34pm BST Wolmarans obtained another door from Pistorius' property – a pantry door similar in style, material and dimensions to the toilet door – on which to conduct tests.
(18) The following variables were positively related to not eating: ethnicity, location, receipt of Medicaid, living alone, health problems, mobility, age less than 80 years, cancer, nausea, difficulty swallowing, diarrhea, loss of appetite, and receipt of food from a food pantry.
(19) Stockport Homes has four pantries, and GMFS supplies about 15 pantries in Greater Manchester.
(20) These used to be referred to as 'emergency food pantries', but now it's like people are having an emergency every day.