earn a pittance

Of course you're going to be earning a pittance.

It once earned a pittance through fishing and sheep farming.

In the process, the landless poor, whose numbers grow every day, try to earn a pittance.

But before the London tabloids began phoning him, he often earned a pittance.

Belarmino won by a knockout, but earned a pittance for his trouble.

Some Zimbabweans earn a pittance working illegally in mines, on farms or as prostitutes.

By earning a pittance as a contributor to learned periodicals, she managed from time to time to share rooms in London with friends.

The young no longer want to go into the family business, earning a pittance while working long hours in a job that offers neither glamour nor independence.

And then she shewed him how, by executing various designs and paintings, she earned a pittance for her support.

Most of his front-line officers earn a pittance of $65 a month, a situation that he acknowledged made them tempting targets for bribes.

She procured plain work; she plaited straw; and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life.

(After all, Scheck earns a pittance compared with what he could if he were a full-time criminal defense attorney.)

He learned and practiced several small handicrafts, and devoting his nights to study of the most miscellaneous description and earned a pittance by teaching.

While team owners were getting rich with sold out arenas game after game, players were earning a pittance and many needed summer jobs to make a living.

The first, in 1971, "A Horse of Mud," focused on illiterate women earning a pittance shaping bricks from Nile mud.

Among the dead and missing from Sept. 11 were immigrant workers who earned a pittance and for whom the basic needs of people in modern society were distant dreams.

Most of the cotton from Southern plantations was worked in the slave mills of Northern England, where women and children earned a pittance for a 16-hour day's work.

Her contemporaries would not have envied Widow Scarlet of Romford who earned a pittance carrying loads of sand and timber.

Amnestied in 1755, he returned to France, but soon sank into poverty, and had to work as a casual labourer to earn a pittance for his wife and family.

The Washington Post reported, that compared to American and European chief executives, Tepco chief, "Shimizu earns a pittance.

He turned his overwhelming internal visions into poems, paintings and engravings, earning a pittance as a professional engraver and less than a pittance trying to sell his own works.

So while a child may earn a pittance for possibly three or four years, he then goes back to the same sad circumstances, as the pay is usually not enough for more than family subsistence.

In Paris I was driven to earn a pittance by giving Spanish lessons or showing Americans -Americanos del None, I mean - the night life of the city.

At the time of the trial, Hegan was living in Coatbridge and earning a pittance as a Butlin's Redcoat and Munro was living in Australia.

If the average private pension fund is £25000, that is a disgrace, either the owner of the fund has earned a pittance, the employer has contributed nothing or the owner refused to save.