Example sentences of "[v-ing] at a loss " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advice it received from the firm was to bring its loans up to date , in particular the $18m credit line it had given to UMF which , PW noted , had consistently been trading at a loss . |
| 2 | Chairman Peter Bonfield pointed out that most of ICL 's competitors are currently trading at a loss . |
| 3 | Rabbit has been trading at a loss — last year , net losses amounted to $2.6m , down from $3.3m losses in the previous year , on revenues down 20% at just under $7m ; for the first quarter of this year , losses were reduced to $248,000 , from $800,000 , on sales down 13% at $1.6m . |
| 4 | More importantly , any disclosures made in relation to this warranty will highlight fairly accurately whether the Business has been trading at a loss since the Balance Sheet Date — which if true might seriously affect the Purchaser 's willingness to buy the Business . |
| 5 | Little clusters of guests were standing about on the cobblestones between the houses , looking at a loss . |
| 6 | says two of the collieries , and are operating at a loss . |
| 7 | Two of the mines , and are operating at a loss . |
| 8 | By now finances were brightening and whilst still running at a loss , this was entirely because of spending on improvements . |
| 9 | By the time we get it spread , we only have a 10 per cent gain in terms of the total energetics of the system , and if you put in fossil fuel for machinery and for fertilisers we are running at a loss . |
| 10 | Even in Nigeria , Africa 's most densely populated country , with the largest urbanized , literate readership , most of the fifteen daily papers on sale in 1981 were running at a loss . |
| 11 | By the late 1960s , indeed , half of Fleet Street was running at a loss ( Economist Intelligence Unit , 1966 ) , and the situation ( though cyclical ) got no better in the 1970s . |
| 12 | His advice was that for the committee to continue trading knowing in advance that we would be running at a loss would leave members open to a charge of wrongful trading . |
| 13 | It 'd been running at a loss for years . |
| 14 | His mum had a good accountant and technically she was running at a loss . |
| 15 | In the case of passenger transport undertakings such as railways and airlines which allow free travel to employees the test would provide mind-boggling difficulties of calculation and when the undertaking was running at a loss would result in a charge to tax that exceeded the fare charged to the general public ; this would also be the case where school fees were heavily subsidised by endowments . |
| 16 | Take a railway running at a loss : the average cost of providing concessionary travel would be a sum greater than the fare charged to the public . |
| 17 | The strongest argument in favour of the taxpayers is the anomaly which would arise if the employer 's business were running at a loss or was subsidised by endowment . |
| 18 | ICI , although running at a loss of £384 million , still distributed £393 million to its shareholders , over half its R&D budget . |
| 19 | Er but the plan itself the DOPACS units have n't been actually completed and therefore they could be running at a loss . |
| 20 | The party has had to bail out its merchandising section , Ecotrade , from party funds , whilst running at a loss . |
| 21 | Er well y yes , they 'll be running at a loss right through until we eventually fix the prices for the whole programme and er hopefully the if they do it very efficiently we might make some profit . |
| 22 | ‘ All we have been told is that there will be a profit of £7,000-a-year but similar facilities in the North-East are running at a loss . ’ |
| 23 | Some newspapers are already running at a loss in the hope that they will move back into profit when the economic situation improves . |
| 24 | This can again leave the family feeling at a loss . |