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paltry sentence examples

  • Suddenly your ma or msc seems rather paltry as you contemplate the competition you're up against in getting a job.
  • Paltry by comparison.
  • Paltry sum of £ 16,000 a year is beyond belief.
  • O f course, there's still the crown regalia, which even today seem paltry compared to the regalia of other countries.
  • This may look a long period for so paltry a world.
  • Paltry salaries or they would all join the armed resistance.
  • Unfortunately, a very paltry amount of time was given to that amendment, as so often happens in another place.
  • Paltry amounts.
  • Although investment is at record levels, it is still pretty paltry.
  • Paltry figure of 0.7 miles well into the shade.
  • These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an omnipotent being.
  • Paltry fee of £ 75,000.
  • Fines for successful prosecutions are often paltry, but have been as high £ 101,000.
  • Paltry return for your thirty notes, there's the small matter of the high-score table to consider.

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