Even the smallest daily activity, like brushing one's teeth, requires a trip to the tank, where people pay a large portion of their meager salaries for containers of cloudy,brackish water.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

And if someone said, it's 4%, you'd say, well that's kind of meager, I want a better dividend than that.

如果他说,是4%,你会觉得少,我想要更高的股利

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She wants to put some of her meager savings in a bank to take back to the village when she returns, but she has been unable to open an account.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Trading takes place a meager three hours a day, from 9 a.m. to noon, with price fixings at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.

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Excluding one-time items the number came to a meager 70 cents, a 31% drop, and below the consensus estimate of 75 cents per share.

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Before that, Twitter users micro-messaged a meager 300, 000 items a day.

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