Countless numbers lost their meagre savings during the drastic currency devaluation of 2009, and from 150,000 to 200,000 people are being held in labour camps and jails.

Re hyperinflation I am not in work and live off some meagre savings - hoping for the upturn.

Hamid didn't sell his first carpet for nearly three months, by which time his meagre savings had all but disappeared.

He soon has more than he can stomach, making money, by bilking the poor, out of their meagre savings, with junk bonds.

He used his meagre savings - and a pledge against next year's pay - to purchase a plot of ground, a marble sarcophagus and a statue above the grave.

As a result of this change, 60,000 elderly people whose meagre savings had previously reduced their pension entitlement received the full state pension.

The BOE thinks along these lines: it's not like the interest payment on your meagre savings is going to change you life, is it?

Elderly woman attacked and robbed of her meagre savings.

She finally had to find her solace in a bottle of Johnny Walker, bought with her meagre savings from her job in the laundry.

I also got a 2% dividend on my meagre savings - I emphasise "meagre".