Only a measly hundred pounds?

A measly 100 a month, Jim?

What, for a measly 20 quid?

But there's no reason for Shirai to swipe such a measly sum.

But now you'd risk all our necks for a measly five million.

He said, A measly thousand bucks for me is much too little.

Why did we have to live here in the first place and stay around this measly, crummy old town?

This town needs this measly onehorse institution if only to have someplace where people can come without crawling to Potter.

But as long as you done took a stand why don't you put some money where your mouth is and not no measly buck!

If you guys could burn down the Reichstag... you can set a match to one measly marriage certificate... and it has to be done tonight!

Consider the US. Though annual GDP growth is estimated to have rebounded to 4 in the second quarter of 2014, following the 2.1 first quarter contraction, that still leaves average growth in the first half of the year at a measly 1 .

Third fact I bet you didn't know that there's enough energy in hot rocks under the country to supply America's energy needs for the next thousand years. And the federal budget calls for a measly 20 million dollars of R D in geothermal energy.

The threat by US officials to cut off aid to Ecuador, which would amount to a measly 12 million in 2014, further evinces a clumsy approach. America s traditional sources of influence its soft power, regional alliances, and financial leverage appear to be running dry.

Given the size of the US population, this is already a problem. If the rest of the world caught up to the United States where meat consumption averages 125.4 kilograms per person annually, compared with a measly 3.2 kilograms in India the environmental consequences would be catastrophic.

In fact, one of the most baffling features of China s economic rise is that, even amid double digit GDP growth, employment grew at a measly 1.8 average annual rate from 1978 to 2004. Households, it seems, have largely missed out on the benefits of economic development in China.

Suppose that the US government were to borrow an extra 500 billion over the next two years and spend it on infrastructure even unproductively, on projects for which the social rate of return is a measly 25 per year. Suppose that as seems to be the case the simple Keynesian government expenditure multiplier on this spending is only two.

When the financial crisis erupted in the fourth quarter of 2007, Italy s GDP plummeted by 7 , then picked up by 3 , dropped again by 5 , rebounded by a measly 0.1 , and lately, during the first half of this year, shrank again, this time by 0.3 . Altogether, Italian GDP has contracted by 9 during the past seven years.

MOSCOW Germany s ex Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is a legend in Russia. He serves Gazprom s interests for a measly couple of million euros a year, sits in at sessions of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and writes books about his staunch friendship with Genosse Wladimir, who, in the not so distant past, earned himself the well deserved nickname of Stasi among business circles in gangster ridden St. Petersburg.