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if both girls had married, this beauty would have had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to a very serious extent.

Fund managers, who allocated a pittance to commodities a few years ago, now put up to 5% of their cash into them.

At the moment mainland residents can legally move only a pittance abroad in any given year.

They might be well-to-do, but their finances were a pittance in comparison with the Culhances'.

But together they owned a mere 1. 2 percent of the company, a pittance given the size of those investment companies.

The shrewd Hutt kept Barada forever in his debt by paying him a pittance yet charging him room and board.

Although many of the poorest now get some kind of government support, it is only a pittance.

According to Prof Mathews, these illegal workers carry the economy of Chungking Mansions as they are willing to work for a pittance.

The pittance your father used to pay me as rent won't even keep me in tea.

So $50, 000 might be a fortune in a small town, but a mere pittance in a big city.

The abundant supply of migrants willing to work for a pittance is slowing.

Some evicted civilians were then forced back by soldiers to mine the diamonds for a pittance.

Eg. The widow must live on her slender pittance.

The Communists seized all private property, and employers provided workers with subsidized housing, the rent a pittance.

You'll lose everything. Family, place. For what? A lifetime of dudgery on a pittance? A child every year and no means to lighten the load?

On the pittance you pay me, I've only got a few things.

The first job that I ever had was delivering newspapers before work but it paid a pittance.

There is nothing for free people, the Chinese are opening their fat cheque books and pay a pittance for Africa's resources.

While a $57, 000 tax-free check is no pittance, it is important to put that figure in perspective.

At those low wages, few will apply for the job. Who wants to work for a pittance?

Neither set of lenders was paid more than a pittance.

This helps to explain why advertisers will only pay a pittance for page views on many social networks.

The peasant laboured for a mere pittance.

According to late reports on Sunday, JPMorgan Chase will buy Bear for a pittance.

Cutting civil-service pay seems unfair to officials who earn a pittance.

That is a pittance considering the $400 billion or so of losses and write-downs at the world's banks from the credit crisis as a whole.

This reserve is earning "a pittance, " he says.

They grudged me even my pittance .

The few jobs now being created too often pay a pittance, not nearly enough to pry open the doors to a middle-class standard of living.

Putting the money on deposit in Hong Kong, the main conduit for renminbi settlement, yields a pittance.

It's a pittance of t ime .

because she makes a pittance compared to the other one of us, but-