"profit" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Between 1990 and 1991, revenues fell 20 percent and a meager profit turned into the $12 million loss.
- His boat was actually owned by a policeman who shared in the meager profits.
- Billy had expected as much, but this meager profit did not diminish the thrill he got from going through the contents of the bag.
- Landowners have increasingly chosen to give up tending the soil for meager profits.
- But the meager profits were not the only problem.
- Today, Padico is a holding company of fairly standard design, modest dimensions and meager profits.
- Even those meager profits were wiped out in the third quarter.
- A meager profit was eked out through securities trading, but to cover operating costs, the bank had to mortgage its building.
- Yet the company lost money through 1994, and reported a meager $18,000 profit for the first nine months of 1995.
- But even so, after years of losses or meager profits, auto insurance companies are making money in New Jersey.
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