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paltry sum

collocation in English

meanings of paltryand sum


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paltry
adjective
uk /ˈpɔːl.tri/ us /ˈpɑːl.tri/
(of an amount of money) very small and of little or ...
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sum
noun
uk /sʌm/ us /sʌm/
an amount ...
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Examples of paltry sum


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It is a paltrysum.
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That is a paltrysum.
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A paltrysum is involved.
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It involves the paltrysum of £60,000.
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A paltrysum would have been involved.
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He said this was a paltrysum.
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Here we are discussing a paltrysum.
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It is rather a paltrysum.
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I am not talking about a paltrysum of £100.
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This small, paltrysum is all that is at stake.
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Let us face it—that will be no paltrysum.
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This paltrysum incensed the fishermen.
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I observe by this report that it received the paltrysum of £50 last year.
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Yet we have here a paltrysum in terms of loans and grants.
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That is not a paltrysum, as some speakers in today's debate have claimed.
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I do not say that is a paltrysum; it is a significant sum.
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The extra charge for welfare foods raised only the paltrysum of £1¾ million.
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Considering the terrible dangers involved in this business, is it not a paltrysum for research?
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Frankly, it is worth no one's while to collect the miserable and paltrysum of 37p.
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What a paltrysum for the vast problem we are facing!
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For that paltrysum of £350 a year, all this commotion and disturbance has been caused.
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A threatening letter was sent to one of my constituents for the paltrysum of £15.
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There have been 1,787 successful convictions, but the average fine imposed has been the paltrysum of £7·70.
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For these licences, the paltrysum of £11,000 was realised, against an estimated public spending in future of £25 million.
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Therefore, a £750 million borrowing requirement is not to be sneezed at as a paltrysum, especially at this time.
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These 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.
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