Why don't we see more contemporary female artists than the paltry number visible in galleries today?

He collected a paltry number of co-sponsors before the bill died.

But Quark had no desire to stay open past 0300 for the paltry number of customers still in the bar.

I have loved a thousand other humans over the years; a paltry number by many people's standards, but sufficient for me.

Turkey lured only $1.2 billion in foreign direct investment last year, a paltry number for an economy of its size.

Or is the system that produces the food supply at fault for the paltry number of choices?

Before the storm, New Orleans was home to 23 public companies, a pretty paltry number to begin with.

But, in the face of the government's paltry new numbers on job growth, the president's new slogan suddenly sounded premature at best.

Every day Bronxville parents drove by, shaking their heads at the paltry number of workers on site.

He has some 250 songs on it, a paltry number compared to the 10,000 selections it can hold.