"Do you think I would concern myself with such a paltry sum?"

"Do you really think this paltry sum is what I meant by money?"

That is why men and women come on these schemes for such a paltry sum.

"Clearly, the large numbers of uninsured cannot be helped by the paltry sums they are talking about."

Maybe there's also an insult intended with the paltry sum being spent?

A thousand dollars a month is such a paltry sum, yet it frightens me.

Earlier capital investment for infrastructure development was a paltry sum of Rs.

The other transaction did attract some private capital, although most analysts said it was a paltry sum.

Such a paltry sum will do little to improve a department that continues to suffer serious shortcomings.

But critics of the inquiry have said that by today's standards $2 million is a paltry sum to try to influence American elections.

Five percent of this paltry sum is devoted to research on firearm-related accidents.

It had been pledged for a paltry sum of five thousand dollars and was probably worth less at present values."

Little of these paltry sums is likely to be new money, most being sliced off existing allocations.

It is a paltry sum compared with some of the multibillion-dollar projects the men have fought about in the past.

Many consumers simply assume they are paying a relatively paltry sum - say $199 a month over three years - to lease a car.

It seemed as if this paltry sum would delay the desired culmination longer than all the rest had.

Some victims are traded between gangs for paltry sums.

Both behaviors have conspired to leave many Americans with paltry sums in their company retirement accounts.

Zadar was, thus sold back to the Venetians for a paltry sum.

It will probably be a lowly minor leaguer or a paltry sum of money.

This charge was mostly symbolic, since it was a fairly paltry sum.

I have some money set aside but you may find it a paltry sum for what I'm asking of you."

A paltry sum indeed, he smiled his contempt.

Despite the fact that they are neighbors, Japanese-Soviet trade was less than $6 billion, a relatively paltry sum.

The systems are available through the Apple Store and from authorized retailers, starting at the paltry sum of just $11,999.95.