| 词汇 | example_english_paltry |
| 释义 | Examples of paltryThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. How do we explain all these paltry records? The paltry amounts of crops and hedge-wood taken indicate that what was in most cases stolen was intended for immediate consumption rather than for resale. Regional integration schemes among less developed countries have yielded paltry results largely because these economies are often only loosely connected to one another. Without it the information reported here will look very paltry, but in fact in its context it does contribute to our knowledge of this chant. Although they are rather paltry, given their position they must have contained the remains of honoured personages, probably rulers of the pre-imperial period. What aggravated the problem of developing a genuine bureaucracy was the paltry level of salaries. Their paltry and insignificant level has already been considered. His old possessions seem paltry to him now. Observing the price volume graph will give us a clear indication that the price levels have come down drastically over the years and seem to have stabilised at paltry levels. Even so, during this period the membership of such organizations was paltry, and their operations tended to be both on a small scale and sporadic in nature. Hence, their furious reaction last month when they closed all but a paltry three of the reform-minded daily newspapers. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The paltry sums pledged, the lack of clarity concerning their allocation and the individualistic logic behind the vehicle promoted testify to this. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Similarly, we would like to highlight the paltry amount of credits made available. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The allocation for administrative expenses is decidedly paltry at a mere 5 %. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The blow is softened at times by the "well maintained" payment, but that is a paltry sum compared with the full market value. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should have to put up a memorial to those who have fallen rather than consider their actions in the paltry terms of money. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not scandalous and paltry that this concession is not being continued as long as the freezing cold lasts? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Welcome as that is, it is paltry when set against those high targets. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, when it was suggested that two trade union officials were not handling comparatively paltry sums of money absolutely properly, there was an outcry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The revenue to be derived this year from the alteration of the law proposed is only the paltry sum of £150,000. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The sum of £25,000 is paltry to area educational and library boards, and this is a hollow gesture at cutting expenditure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, they make a paltry contribution to child care. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We expect something more in the way of housing from them than a paltry £10 to assist our programme. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Surely, if it was a genuine effort to solve agricultural difficulties, more than a paltry eight pages would be devoted to education and research. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The exports to this country were 86,000 tons of maize—a paltry figure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I observe by this report that it received the paltry sum of £50 last year. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The overall expenditure on supply-side measures is a paltry £125 million. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The only fault is failure to notify the appropriate authorities of any spillage, and even then the penalty for failure to notify is a paltry £50. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it worth breaking our country's proud tradition for such a paltry and irrelevant amount? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Two 5p tokens per month is rather paltry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is he aware that, compared with the total of defence expenditure, the price of dignity for this nation is a paltry few pounds? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There have been 1,787 successful convictions, but the average fine imposed has been the paltry sum of £7·70. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The report provides graphic evidence that the entire story hinges on the terribly low and paltry level of existing penalties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was surprised to discover that the penalty imposed on the employer was a paltry fine of £750. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The amount spent at the moment is a pathetic, paltry £1.1 million per annum. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not paltry when only £730 is involved? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have given 60 years of their lives to industry and commerce, and the reward for such service is the paltry sum of ten bob. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that the programme brought forward is paltry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was ashamed to think that such insignificant, such paltry reasons should be put against the efforts which are being made. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No prosecutions come, or when they do come, the fines are paltry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A paltry £25 million goes nowhere near such an objective. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The purpose is and the result is to raise a paltry £4 million during the rest of the current financial year. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will he further confirm that even that paltry figure is not being met? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The added benefits to be provided for part of the nation under the scheme are paltry, and poor value for money. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is he not ashamed to come here with that paltry excuse? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, a £750 million borrowing requirement is not to be sneezed at as a paltry sum, especially at this time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A considerable number were involved, and because of that paltry wage they went on strike. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The people in the coal fields, in particular the miners who retired before 1975 on a paltry occupational pension, will be considerably relieved. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We find that only five of these scholarships have been provided—a paltry figure for a great country like this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The sum of £1,500 is paltry when one considers what some tenants have done to their properties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Frankly that is a paltry amount and this is a paltry proposition. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Frankly, that is a paltry figure if one loses a suitcase full of clothes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not see, if that is so, how you can describe it as a paltry and unimportant enterprise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot take the view that that is a small or paltry proposal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He envisaged not merely a paltry £3,000,000 or £4,000,000 increase. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are talking about a problem running into hundreds of thousands of cases, not a paltry few hundred offences here and there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I said that £5 was paltry for a specific reason. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In order to save a paltry £46,000, the country will have to pay hundreds of millions of pounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As the law stands, the paltry fines imposed on guilty employers are an insult to those who have died and to workers and their families. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, he described the figure involved as paltry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hoped that this paltry little provision was covered by the assurance that the road programme that had been announced stood. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All that has been recovered so far is £300,000—a paltry sum in comparison to the total. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Very often the public grow alarmed and ask why did a certain dispute take place on such a paltry issue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are to be penalised by this paltry grant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is he aware that this disaster could be averted for what by comparison is the paltry sum of £35,000? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She survives on a paltry £71 a week and has no central heating. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The savings will be paltry—if there are savings at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is an allocation of a paltry £1 million for derelict land in non-local authority ownership—that is, statutory undertakers, nationalised industries and private people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What decent patriotic chaps they are who are willing to work for such a paltry salary! From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Ideas have been suggested, although they seem a little paltry on first sight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At one time he was saying that it would prevent women going to hospital and at another he said it was a paltry sum. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We started life with a paltry allowance of£250,000 a year. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not want to see these small firms go out for the want of paltry sums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I confess that the community programme remains fairly popular, but the paltry wages—on average under £60 a week—are fast becoming a national scandal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They chased the young men out of the mining industry for a few paltry coppers a day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People who break those regulations are jeopardising the livelihoods of thousands of people, and not paltry fines but gaol sentences are required. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Any adult not in possession of supporting documents to establish a claim was, it is reported, given the paltry sum of £650. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Surely it is the most paltry economy to suggest that if they study for more than 21 hours their supplementary benefit should be reduced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does not that imbalance of trade compare terribly with the organic aid scheme, which produces a paltry £1 million spread over five years? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The afflicted often receive nothing but paltry compensation, totally inadequate to deter the criminal or adequately avenge the offence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not say that is a paltry sum; it is a significant sum. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is then dependent upon this paltry compensation for a short period. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One is that it is a fairly paltry record of growth when it is compared with what went beforehand. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Where is the money to come from if the paltry amount now available is further diminished by the withdrawal of £46 million? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The sum is paltry compared with the total budget. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are talking about people whose income is so paltry that they will be unable to pay income tax on their benefits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is one of the biggest moonlighters in this building, yet he has the cheek to attack nurses who are on paltry wages. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They do not need to sell the principle of free preventive screening for such a paltry price. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The law officers will be chasing people for these paltry sums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, the private sector is really paltry by comparison in all too many cases. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The prize money at the show is so paltry as to dispose of any suggestion of cruelty for gain. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When you come to divide the amount by the number of workers, it is a very paltry sum. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I must say that, in the face of the desire of the whole world for permanent peace the proposals we made this summer seemed paltry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 His paltry number of 255,000 houses a year is 100,000 a year less than an independent expert estimate of what will be needed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, it is a pity that such an important topic is limited to a paltry two and a half hours. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is to be no increase in heating additions and 80p is a paltry increase with which to face the winter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is not this a paltry sum of money compared to £300 million of cuts in youth training? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There should be practical gliding on a far greater scale than the paltry subsidy now given to one particular body permits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The house building programme for 1990–91 has been reduced to a paltry 1,000 houses—an inadequate response to increasing housing needs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, we have some practical suggestions for the severe weather payments scheme, which is miserly, paltry and unworkable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. 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