Example sentences of "run at a loss " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sistelcom 's president , Victoria Reinoso , announced that investment in the new system was running at some $3.5m per annum , and acknowledged that the system would run at a loss for the first two years . |
| 2 | He claimed that the government was forcing Petrobrás to run at a loss in order to keep petrol prices and thus inflation down . |
| 3 | By now finances were brightening and whilst still running at a loss , this was entirely because of spending on improvements . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It 'd been running at a loss for years . |
| 9 | His mum had a good accountant and technically she was running at a loss . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ICI , although running at a loss of £384 million , still distributed £393 million to its shareholders , over half its R&D budget . |
| 14 | Er but the plan itself the DOPACS units have n't been actually completed and therefore they could be running at a loss . |
| 15 | The party has had to bail out its merchandising section , Ecotrade , from party funds , whilst running at a loss . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Some newspapers are already running at a loss in the hope that they will move back into profit when the economic situation improves . |
| 19 | Provision of unlimited money undermines incentives for greater efficiency which is why nationalised industries always run at a loss . |
| 20 | I suppose we we would run the Independent as a professional publication , but it would be run at a loss for a very long time before you could turn it around . |
| 21 | If a partner or sole trader has more than one business enterprise ( e.g. two or three small cafes ) , and one is successful whilst another runs at a loss , the loss incurred by one enterprise may be offset against the tax liability for the successful enterprise . |