Joanne Meager, 38 from Sheffield, thought she was seeing double when she opened our sister paper the Surrey Comet. |
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Meager as it was, that 2-cent mechanical rate of 1914 proportionally dwarfs the 9.1 cents per physical copy paid today. |
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Data on the social origins of the hierarchy appointed between Peter's death and Catherine the Great's enthronement in 1762 are meager. |
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My lovely wife has been lording it over me ever since, unimpressed with the meager success I've had with prior awards. |
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The soldier was exhausted, and the meager food failed to sate his gnawing hunger, but he wasn't alone or afraid any longer. |
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The only other fish to be weighed in were 5 herring, one tarwhine and a few whiting, pretty meager pickings. |
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For all but the very wealthy, the tax break from dividends would be meager. |
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Shadowy clouds completely obscured the moon, leaving a meager handful of stars to vainly attempt to provide light. |
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She had a slim and meager body, her neck was long, and her cheekbones were easily distinguished. |
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We had no idea who she was, and only her meager profile gave proof that she was in fact female beneath the armor. |
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To augment his meager living stipend he was handing out flyers for timeshares when he met a tourist from Tokyo. |
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It only gives them one more mouth to feed and one more drain on their meager resources. |
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Here we have masses of lower income people transferring their meager wealth via outrageous interest rates to unscrupulous moneylenders. |
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At the meager age of thirteen, Shelby looked every bit the shy skinny uncoordinated girl she really was. |
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Three days passed, and the water skins were quite empty, the meager provisions long finished. |
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Although some iron, steel, boilerplate, and machinery was smuggled through the blockade, the flow was meager and uncertain. |
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Interesting what a meager piece of knowledge could do to flip lives upside-down. |
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Militiamen dug in their heels behind meager breastworks and awaited the arrival of their adversaries. |
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Lastly, because natural gas is nonrenewable, reliance on it as a fuel offers meager benefits for long-term energy security. |
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These superstitions were nourished by ecclesiastical institutions, for which the poet had meager respect. |
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Gusting breezes stiffened and rustled the heavy leaf canopies offering a meager shade from the summer sun. |
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Even the most stiff nominal tax rate would turn out to be a very meager tax burden for landowners. |
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The trio had eked out a meager living through acts of charity, upholding their righteous values, even in a foreign land. |
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She pursued that dream, supplementing her meager dancer's pay with work as a runway model. |
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Then I heard the swagger stick slowly flipping through the holding pages of Finley's meager account book. |
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In North Africa, meager amounts of air cover were parceled out to each ground commander. |
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Yet the decorations were always meager, and their gifts chosen with his usual parsimony. |
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The food was meager, coarse bread and a single cup of water along with a small bowl of some kind of stew, long gone cold. |
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He wasn't the least bit perturbed by the meager audience, nor was he disturbed by the obvious pastoral snub. |
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The meager funds provided by government for medical facilities in rural areas are squandered away by local petty officials. |
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But even that function is pretty meager, for only sparse audiences of curious spectators and hard core loyalists ever show up at their confabs. |
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Even the meager construction projects fell through because of the the government foot-dragging and incompetence. |
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Or is it a meager, yet expressive hint that the forgiveness of sins is a foretaste of eternal life? |
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The crude items of every day use that were the few meager processions of the poor have become the prestige consumption of the affluent. |
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Even healthy Bactrian camels are meager procreators because the birth of a single camel requires a 14-month gestation period. |
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While they wait for the train, the prisoners eat their meager ration of bread. |
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It seemed then a meager justification for manipulating my little brain and heart, yet an ache for wild beauty does command me. |
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But affability, like intelligence, can mask a mean and meager spirit as well as the absence of a sense of proportion. |
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So the refugees are having to swap some of their meager food ration for other vital supplies that they are not given. |
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Unable to supplement their meager rations via hoarding or purchases on the public black markets, inmates soon deteriorated. |
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Although its taste is barely acceptable these meager rations were all the station dared supply. |
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Their meager paychecks didn't go very far, but the stores didn't have many products to sell anyway. |
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Without revenue, except for meager voluntary state requisitions, Congress could not even pay the interest on its outstanding debt. |
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Isabella retched up the meager contents of her stomach onto the ground and returned to the camp. |
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Its greatest weakness is its meager budget and limited scope. |
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Mitt needed to prevent Rick from winning the mesa, Ariz., debate, and he accomplished that meager goal. |
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The profligate US government, it was said, could not finance its deficits from the meager savings of its people, thereby necessitating borrowing from abroad. |
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For doing all such activities and acting as an important functionary for the government, the monthly wages being paid to him are too meager to be taken into consideration. |
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After a winter of meager snowfalls, another drought is likely. |
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It growled at him and latched its teeth onto the windshield, the very tips of its fangs breaching the meager shield and poking holes in the glass. |
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Saddest of all, workers will continue to brave health and physical threats only to earn a meager amount of money to buy sustenance for their families. |
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But what happens once this retrospectively meager foreign aid money dries up? |
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The general impression one gets is that Morse accepts the persistent stereotype of the solitary miner scratching out a meager existence largely on his own. |
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Although she's now rich and famous, she remembers her meager beginnings as a child from a poor family. |
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They suffered through several meager years at the beginning of their marriage. |
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This is particularly true when the opportunities for self-advancement are relatively meager, and one's individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for. |
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Its meager light provided the group its only means of illumination. |
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Food and shelter are the greatest problems, and many children have lost families or work at menial tasks to provide meager, subsistence-level support. |
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Never mind Hernandez's meager 34 percent plurality in the fiercely battled contest. |
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It was then that he realized she was sponging off his meager salary. |
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It thought of the insects and vermin that it had fed on, the most meager of sustenance to maintain its life, but enough to eventually give it the strength to free it self. |
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Look through that PDF I just linked to and feast on the meager amounts earmarked for democracy and assistance programs. |
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It's not that he's miscast, or wrong for the film, but his thespian power transcends the material, making the meager work of others around him stand out even more. |
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Here they stay in a filthy flophouse, live with refugees, and subsist on meager scraps. |
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We'll have to do the best we can with this year's meager harvest. |
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So here, with apologies are a few meager offerings from these dudeless wastes. |
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The federal government attempted to enforce the law, but with meager affect. |
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In contrast to plants and animals, the early fossil record of the fungi is meager. |
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Sailors might hope to supplement their meager diets with fish if they were lucky enough to catch them. |
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A meager talent for sketching and crayon work led me to attempt crude picturizations involving the outlandish denizens of my nighted thoughts. |
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In any case, the prison camps were miserable places where food rations were meager and conditions squalid. |
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Rising to retrieve it, I offer her what meager reassurance I can muster. |
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Every morning he eats a meager breakfast of toast and coffee. |
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Ririe has brought his company from the meager surroundings of a potato equipment facility to one of the nation's leading manufacturers of biotechnical diagnostic equipment. |
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Perhaps this is payback for the efforts the city has taken, meager though they may be, to divert trash from BFI while pledging to end dumping altogether in upcoming years. |
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In spring 1605 they moved to another small house in Mitcham, London, where he scraped a meager living as a lawyer, while Anne Donne bore a new baby almost every year. |
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This is the conviction that economists' understanding of the business cycle is meager in light of the knowledge necessary for activist countercyclical policy to be effective. |
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