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meager amount
Cantidad exigua
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meager adjective

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magro, flaco; exiguo, escaso, pobre

Example sentences of
meager adjective

  • Every morning he eats a meager breakfast of toast and coffee.
  • We'll have to do the best we can with this year's meager harvest.
  • She came to this country with a fairly meager English vocabulary, but she is learning more words every day.
  • They suffered through several meager years at the beginning of their marriage.
  • Although she's now rich and famous, she remembers her meager beginnings as a child from a poor family.

amount noun

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amounts
cantidad, suma

Example sentences of
amount noun

  • What is the amount to be paid?
  • The drug is not being produced in adequate amounts.
  • An amount was finally agreed upon.
  • The new law limits the amount a candidate can spend.
  • When he died we found he owed money to the amount of $250,000!
  • He didn't lose a large amount of money.