Somewhere she'd read that a meager seventeen percent of air pulled in by the lungs was actually used.

And in the last half of the 1980's, it averaged a still more meager 3.4 percent.

In the medical school the figure is a meager 7 percent.

Wal-Mart's sales at stores open at least a year rose a meager 2.2 percent.

But labor force growth has been a meager 1 percent a year.

That increased the work force by a meager 2.7 percent.

Another recent poll had the number at a meager 13 percent.

In the second game, the Milwaukee Bucks shot a meager 63 percent.

St. John's improved to shoot a meager 35 percent over all after shooting 29 percent in the first half.

Profits represent a meager 10 percent of sales, far less than for its other businesses.