The meager amounts collected were used to finance the work.

The meager amount that parents will receive from vouchers will not buy quality private education.

With that meager amount of four-star experience, said one retired general, "It's very thin at the top."

In addition, the amendment drew attention to the meager amount the State was promising for public education.

For several days, they cooked the unground wheat in meager amounts of water.

Oddly enough, the land was eventually sold for a meager amount of money.

The nation cannot advance, he has said, on the meager amount of capital that domestic businesses generate.

There is virtually no rain except in the mountains, where a meager amount falls each year.

Perhaps there was a store room below, with more supplies than the meager amount Fanyi had found.

"I pay myself a meager amount of money and live pretty much hand-to-mouth," said the designer, who has no partners or employees.