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Example sentences for: meager

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Although the functions and expression patterns for dozens of genes have been characterized in particular plant tissues and organs, the number of well studied examples is meager compared to the total number of genes [ 2].
There's a different, but no less intense, pleasure to be derived from these miracles worked up from the meager materials of paper and chalk.
In blunt summary (I'm running out of time), perhaps asking us (the unwashed masses) to shell out 20 bucks a year for the privilege of staring longer at this stinkin' monitor for an hour or two more a week, when we'd rather bail outta this rotten sweatshop before the sun goes down, won't be as appealing an expenditure for our meager discretionary income as say, three pitchers of beer or a couple of baseball game tickets.
Although constitutive pathways might be needed to utilize the meager remaining nutrients, there would be less need for induction processes.
As a result, the already meager international purchasing power of China's rock-bottom wages is suppressed even further.