In Vermont, Sanders worked many jobs for meager sums - as a freelance writer, filmmaker, carpenter and researcher, among other things.

Five hundred is a pretty meager sum when you've got more than twelve thousand at home.

"Shine" cost about $4.5 million, a meager sum by today's film making standards.

And companies were paying out extraordinarily meager sums to their shareholders in the form of dividends.

This meager sum was duly awarded to the state, minus a small amount for his widow's dower rights.

And the families that receive it resent its meager sum, its stigma, its prying social workers.

He now scrapes by on his pension "from that extinct profession," combined with the even more meager sums he earns writing a weekly column.

Many of her colleagues also spend meager sums or recycle old dresses and suits from past affairs.

This was a meager sum considering the heist netted over a quarter of a million dollars.

It said there was nothing illegal about the transfer of land to private hands for such a meager sum.