He drew himself up as if that paltry figure were a matter for pride.

In the process, they have begun to bury the paltry figures of their own past.

But that's a paltry figure compared with the money being thrown at comics at places like last week's United States Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo.

Testaverde is averaging fewer than 6 yards an attempt, a paltry figure that he has not sunk to since his days at Tampa Bay.

Although foreign manufacturers are heavily investing to increase production, there are only 10 million cars in this country, a paltry figure in a nation of 1.3 billion people.

Those paltry figures are a clear indication that Sprewell has ceased slashing to the basket.

They take 75 shots a game, a paltry figure.

But I won't be all that impressed until all fathers start taking responsibility for raising their kids, rather than the paltry figure of one in seven.

For widespread abuse, you need to look at tax evasion - not avoidance, evasion - which amount to £70 billion a year, rather than the paltry figures for benefit fraud.

These paltry figures came as an unpleasant surprise to the Russians, who were prepared, they said, to deploy 120 infantry divisions against an aggressor in the west at the very outbreak of hostilities.