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pittance sentence examples

  • Pittance of a wage.
  • People earning a pittance will take years just to save this small amount.
  • Wardle received a small remuneration from the rca, a mere pittance considering the work he did for the association.
  • Pittance wages.
  • Pittance in wages.
  • Pittance of food is for the most part excessively prolonged.
  • Pittance compared with some other ill-fated government-aided schemes, e.g. the foolish greenwich dome!
  • Put them in to poor accommodation and gave them a miserable pittance to try and feed and clothe themselves.
  • They were paid a pittance for lace made by the yard, .
  • Result - a small pittance after the council had taken its cut for unpaid nursing care.
  • Chinese or indian or bolivian workers receive a pittance in wages.
  • Was danny crow really not worth a chance on the back of relegation, especially given his relative pittance of a salary?
  • At the moment i get a pittance for pay yet i pay an immense amount of council tax.
  • Indeed the work which obtains the scanty pittance of food is for the most part excessively prolonged.
  • Suzuki swift: tiny revolution it looks like the mini's little brother, bristles with technology and costs a pittance.

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