The greatest cost we encounter is that of advertising, which is not only expensive but yields meagre results in comparison to the money spent.

I saw the meagre result: a groove of a few inches in the hard volcanic rock!

Disappointed by the meagre results, I decided to keep up the contacts I had made and return one day a wiser man.

These were no doubt meagre political results.

Considering the meagre results, one might wonder what an unsuccessful summit looks like.

Given that the Treaty was signed almost 50 years ago, this is a rather meagre result.

However welcome, that is certainly a very meagre result!

All in all however the summit produced fairly meagre results.

You can all see how difficult that is from the efforts the Member States are making at national level and from the fairly meagre results.

He argued in February 1992 that the province had given away $1.5 billion in tax incentives to create a brokerage industry, with meagre results.