They promise a percentage of a big transfer, but the player receives next to nothing. |
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In the time of Henry the Eighth, a person who did not read Greek and Latin could read nothing, or next to nothing. |
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Four important players were making next to nothing, allowing the team to win without breaking the bank. |
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Last year I got slightly tipsy, threw up a number of times and remembered next to nothing. |
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With their geothermal underground springs, Icelanders heat their water for next to nothing. |
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With millions of bucks on the line, photographers will stop at next to nothing to get the money shot. |
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She does her washing there, in the twin-tub machine she got for next to nothing through the classified ads in the paper. |
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She was wearing a thick polo neck sweater, but beneath it she wore next to nothing. |
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This was typical, for them, as they had done next to nothing during the past few days. |
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The motorway and bridge were closed as billowing smoke left visibility on the road at next to nothing. |
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If it keeps depreciating at current levels by the time we reach 2050 it will be worth next to nothing. |
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If only 100 recipients take the bait, it is worthwhile since emails cost next to nothing to output. |
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We could have ordered scores of Playstation and Dreamcast titles for next to nothing. |
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I snap up a 60s dress and a vanity case from a little old lady for next to nothing, while Pam finds some more crockery. |
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Despite its Olympic status, archery receives virtually no television coverage and its leading exponents earn next to nothing. |
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You can start entirely new plants from pieces of daylilies, tulips, hyacinths, and other beauties for next to nothing. |
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Detroit has long pumped out cars that no one wants, only to fob them off on rental fleets for next to nothing. |
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Stop perpetuating the idea that young women out on the lash and dressed in next to nothing are asking for it. |
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We hear next to nothing of the refugee camps, the economic and social embargoes and the massacres. |
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Much of the human population there lacks the essentials, so of course homeless dogs and cats are allotted next to nothing. |
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Yes, she was still lean, keen, and beautiful, yet I still knew next to nothing about her past. |
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The beloved long pareo, the swimsuit cover-up of choice for so many years, has shrunk to next to nothing. |
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Since its members will likely get next to nothing if it liquidates, the committee is now seen as an ally to the airline's bid for survival. |
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Like most people, I understand next to nothing about the arcana of computer programming. |
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Since his films were made for next to nothing, he couldn't afford the luxury of paying for film extras. |
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Poems are quoted and paraphrased but Mr Stubbs offers next to nothing in the way of analysis. |
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In the first IPL season, three of the biggest success stories cost next to nothing. |
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I was astonished to learn that customs authorities and market-surveillance bodies have hitherto known next to nothing of each other's activities. |
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It will no longer be able to make huge profit margins on CDs that cost next to nothing to manufacture. |
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Railways pay next to nothing and the airline industry pays NO fuel duty at all on international flights. |
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For overnight trips outside Leh, local travel agents will suggest places to stay, all of which cost next to nothing. |
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We were penny-ante criminals getting something for next to nothing. |
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The liquidity trap is usually found when interest rates are close to zero, which makes the cost of holding cash balances next to nothing. |
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Was the poor publisher supposed to pay top dollar for a team of world-class typesetters and proofreaders and then sell the thing for next to nothing? |
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I drink next to nothing during the week, sometimes a couple of beers when watching a film when home alone. |
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Better performance capabilities and lower costs of PC-based networked computing means that the real machine time cost is next to nothing. |
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Western gold attracted thousands of people who were tired of working for next to nothing. |
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People with next to nothing, like Mr. López, the peasant farmer, were dubious at best. |
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I wasn't able to concentrate, and I was so tired and cranky that I would sometimes snap at people for next to nothing. |
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In the prime of manhood at 43, Simon runs a company closing in on half a billion dollars in revenues, with a market cap twice that, up from next to nothing eight years ago. |
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The Member States, however, have reacted by doing next to nothing, and this is intolerable. |
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A society of the excluded thus created out of next to nothing a knowledge society of extraordinary vitality, founded on associative democracy. |
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In fact the BBC main news said next to nothing about such casualties until a flood of complaints from our readers appeared to contribute to a short-lived change in reporting. |
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It is the federal government that stands out as having done next to nothing while our communities are devastated. |
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For a start, we know next to nothing about what ceramic vessels contained. |
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Here your plate will be piled high for next to nothing, dry white port will be offered as an aperitif, and vinho verde, a light not too potent wine, is a common accompaniment. |
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Though we are accustomed to the idea that readers need to be governed by the right hermeneutic, in fact theory and method mean next to nothing in reading. |
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He went down to city hall to learn why his utilities cost so much, and found out to run water to our town, it cost the government next to nothing. |
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To date, the rich world's example has been to speak piously, and do next to nothing. |
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But here, now, reposing in his arms, weighing next to nothing but changing everything, is the second. |
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Those most affected will be smaller labs, or new investigators to the field, who already subsist on next to nothing. |
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It holds a measly quarter-ounce of lube, which is next to nothing, but the needle-like applicator means you can oil up parts with pinpoint precision. |
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Mr. Lisbona said Barbie Airplane, his belt sander racer, cost next to nothing to build. |
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Are we going to tell them to sell their houses or whatever, move to Alberta and work there for next to nothing? |
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As next to nothing was known about Kuru, the two scientists made a point of tracking both the history and the progress of the disease so that eventually, they might be able to discover its cause and origin. |
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Vitamin supplements cost next to nothing and bring lifelong benefits. |
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The movie cost next to nothing to make so if it failed, it failed. |
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They are so easy to look after and cost next to nothing to keep. |
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We found this butler tray table in a junk shop for next to nothing! |
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He said that it is a misguided strategy to attempt to manage salmon stocks in the ocean while doing next to nothing to protect the streams and creeks in which salmon spawn. |
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It says something about neighborliness in the more rarefied Zip Codes that the Walters knew next to nothing about whoever occupied the apartment upstairs. |
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Without supporters, a team is next to nothing. |
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Equally important, delivery costs next to nothing. |
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They have sold animals for next to nothing just to pay a few bills. |
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Those are some of the farmers that need the most help and those are the ones who are disqualified or receiving next to nothing under this poorly designed program. |
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This is next to nothing compared to the tenors in the same field. |
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It was also noted in Nanaimo that the federal government is thought to be completely fixated on the east coast fishery and that next to nothing was getting done on the Pacific coast. |
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Today, associations of software or e-commerce merchants are trying to figure out how to convince the general public to translate for free or for next to nothing. |
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This tiny distance is next to nothing in the race, especially without a steady trade wind blowing, which means there are still a large number of opportunities to pull off a major coup. |
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The building can be heated and kept cool for next to nothing. |
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If you're looking for a more personalised, decorative option, baby furniture can be picked up for next to nothing at car boot sales or bric-a-brac shops. |
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I ran through my wages in two days. Now I've got to live on next to nothing till Friday! |
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Knowing next to nothing about either place but being aware that at one time their parochial boundaries had met at some impenetrable spot around Saltpan Creek, I agreed. |
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A point hath no dimensions, but only a whereness, and is next to nothing. |
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Human life may have continued on top of the ice sheet, but we know next to nothing about it, and very little about the human life that preceded the European glaciers. |
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