Either she did get the opportunity to defend herself by scratching, in which case she came away with a pitiful amount of skin, or she didn't.

And I could shave even that pitiful amount down.

"Well, if we decide we're interested, Aidan will haggle with you over that pitiful amount, to be sure."

Dodd sighed and called his speech back up onto the screen, looking over the pitiful amount he'd accomplished.

The pitiful amount of iron they had taken from the hill this year was not enough to encour- age them to dig for more.

How far have you drained the pitiful amount of power you have to begin with?

It seems like a pitiful amount when you consider Bill Gates retired years ago with a sum of 70 billion US dollars.

They had salvaged as much as they could from the destroyed camp, but it added up to a pitiful amount of supplies.

He lay there for a minute scratching at the pitiful amount of hair on his chest and then he came over.

We spend pitiful amounts on research and development and we have to work towards a truly common European energy policy in external affairs.