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Example sentences for: pittance

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Nonetheless : The quantity of snow that fell on the eastern seaboard this week was a pittance compared with the quantity that fell last season on Mount Baker.
Before he was 40, Rockefeller controlled all but a pittance of the country's oil.
“Working for the English” means you earn a mere pittance.
Now, it's a pittance, right?
And as long as you have no realistic alternative to industrialization based on low wages, to oppose it means that you are willing to deny desperately poor people the best chance they have of progress for the sake of what amounts to an aesthetic standard--that is, the fact that you don't like the idea of workers being paid a pittance to supply rich Westerners with fashion items.