Example sentences of "be running at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'd been running at a loss for years . |
| 2 | Bankruptcies are running at a record rate of 800,000 a year . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Er but the plan itself the DOPACS units have n't been actually completed and therefore they could be running at a loss . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the simplest systems , where only one program is running at a time , this means merely expediting the changeover from one program to the next . |
| 11 | As the target position is approached the stepping rate must be reduced , so th t the motor is running at a speed below the start/ top rate when the target is reached . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His mum had a good accountant and technically she was running at a loss . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | By 1914 , strike action was running at a rate comparable to that of 1905 . |