The worker struggled for hours with the task and received a pittance for her effort. From LearnThat.org.
They work all day for a mere pittance. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
As he's presently unemployed, my pittance is helping keep food on the table. From Wordnik.com. [Up The Hill Backwards] Reference
Or should be grateful for whatever pittance is tossed their general direction despite the fact no other industry "expects" this. From Wordnik.com. [Back on Track...] Reference
English officer with his miserable pittance, which is totally inadequate to his rank and station!. From Wordnik.com. [Diary in America, Series One] Reference
The fact the allotment for transit has historically been a pittance is a matter of political ineptitude and ideology. From Wordnik.com. [Streetcar of Sam’s desire on track « Stephen Rees’s blog] Reference
You call the pittance they were given to stay alive (compared to what was given to Wall Street) an "exorbitant amount of money". From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress] Reference
Saltman said the offers were a "pittance" and he turned all of them down. From Wordnik.com. [charles statman] Reference
London, and often half starving on the miserable pittance which is all they can earn. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis] Reference
The R2143 to be given to each MK member was seen as a "pittance" by dissatisfied members. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
In his parish he lives in solitude on a "pittance" of perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
He says the initial royalty rate of 5 percent is a "pittance" that would short Colorado of billions of dollars. From Wordnik.com. [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference
The same ones who decide that my "pittance" isn't enough and borrow more money than any other entity in the history of the planet. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
At least, that is, a pittance of his capital. From Wordnik.com. [Hey, (Cowering-In-The)Barracks Forshame Obummer: If You Would Lead, Maybe We Would Follow] Reference
"pittance" and that he wishes the amount were larger. From Wordnik.com. [Freep.com - RSS] Reference
They paid him a pittance to stay out of their hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Star of David] Reference
He's still allowed to keep a pittance of what he's been given. From Wordnik.com. [The Peacock King: Book 1, Chapter 1] Reference
Might sound like a pittance to some, but Ryan Lemmon was all ears. From Wordnik.com. [D.C. job-training program aims to open doors -- and minds] Reference
Neither state nor newly privatized companies paid more than a pittance in taxes. From Wordnik.com. [Potemkin Prosperity] Reference
That pittance wouldn't begin to cover this year's rent increase, up 10.5 percent. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise of a Humble Coin] Reference
Actually, this number is a pittance compared to what corporations and the rich throw in. From Wordnik.com. [Rick Ayers: An Inconvenient Superman: Davis Guggenheim's New Film Hijacks School Reform] Reference
Hollywood studios didn't want to pay more than a pittance for a film featuring pedophilia. From Wordnik.com. [Orphan 'Lolita' Goes To Europe] Reference
Changing lyrics cost pittance, but press coverage is priceless, so maybe Epic staged it, they say. From Wordnik.com. [Double Talk] Reference
For those who don't, enterprising dealers record the footage on videodiscs and sell them for a pittance. From Wordnik.com. [Iraqi Vice] Reference
Only three companies were prosecuted at Nuremberg; they and a few others paid a pittance in compensation. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Company] Reference
The Rajasthan fields, which Cairn Plc snapped up from Anglo-Dutch giant Shell in 2002 for a relative pittance. From Wordnik.com. [Vedanta To Buy 60% Stake In Cairn India] Reference
Baghdad has almost nothing to do with the Palestinian uprising, and Saddam's payments to suicide bombers are a pittance. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: Planet Bush] Reference
Only three firms -- Farben, Krupp and Flick -- were prosecuted after the war, and a few more paid a pittance in compensation. From Wordnik.com. [A Nazi-Era Bill Finally Comes Due] Reference
Then there are gray areas: art works sold for a pittance during wartime with the wolf at the door -- or the Gestapo knocking. From Wordnik.com. [The Spoils Of War] Reference
Those rates, too, will probably drop after last week's cut, but they're better than the pittance the money funds have on offer. From Wordnik.com. [Better Bets For Safe Cash] Reference
So far, however, the firm has gotten off relatively lightly, paying a fine of just 500 million yen -- a pittance by U.S. standards. From Wordnik.com. [Cleaning Up Japan Inc.] Reference
Tact is a trait possessed by numerous people, for example by seasoned foreign diplomats and PR consultants earning a relative pittance. From Wordnik.com. [David Bolchover: Tony Hayward and Those CEO Myths] Reference
It would be a pity if everyone got so lathered up about obscenity, real or in the eye of the beholder, that this pittance seemed too much. From Wordnik.com. [Fine Art Or Foul?] Reference
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