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We have, after all, a meagre enough amount of free time.

It was very difficult to lead the life with their meagre income.

Whatever was coming to him, he would have to meet it from his own meagre resources.

A whole family would work from morning until late at night for very meagre earnings.

He made no answer, but sat down to his meagre meal.

"We have just had meagre reports of some such event."

He seemed far too big for the room's meagre proportions.

But now it has reduced to a meagre 3-4 families.

Over his test career he had a meagre strike rate of 26.44.

He was also noted for meagre investment in social services.

And certainly only a meagre handful made it really big on a first book.

And then he had one more - meagre - idea.

Even with a meagre population of about 8,000, it has a post office, a bank and schools.

Only meagre ruins are to be seen of it today.

His later scientific contributions turned out to be rather meagre.

I also have meagre pension which is taken into account.

A meagre and wretched home but he had known no other.

I tell him the evidence is compelling but the details are meagre.

A couple of steps took her from the car to its meagre shelter.

His father was a tailor and he came from a family of meagre means.

Though, he first stood for election in 1952 but lost by a meagre 4 votes.

However, income from agriculture is too meagre to support the population.

By the end of his life he had become reduced to living in a meagre flat.

That would have gone to pay some meagre way towards the debt.

Sources for William's actions between 1082 and 1084 are meagre.

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

A week was out of the question, but a day seemed too meager.

But the law has had meager results because Congress did not put much money behind its words.

But even then he knew it was a very meager hope.

That he gave her some sense of security, however meager.

The power of those who want to protect open space is meager.

It is a large part of their meager body language.

That increased the work force by a meager 2.7 percent.

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

Sam Young led the team with a meager 10 points.

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

To some, such results, however meager, mean that these drugs can help.

All he has done is to meet the most meager of our expectations.

Growth, though meager, is still running at slightly more than 1 percent.

Only one thought existed beyond her meager space of life.

Most executives said economic growth next year would be meager.

In the final years of her life she lived under meager conditions.

He was a poor student, with a meager 67 grade average.

Despite such a meager beginning, the project continued to move forward.

He ran a small business which produced only a meager living.

How long since he had anything but the most meager meal?

Meager growth of 1 or 2 percent is the best that can be expected this year, the study said.

And now the spending that made even this meager growth possible is at risk.

And, under the meager Government spending plan, what chance is there that we ever will?

Last season, the scoring average in Week 1 was a meager 36.2 points a game.