Sentence examples for a modest operation from inspiring English sources

He presided over the company's growth from a modest operation, generating less than $4 million a year in revenue, to one with revenue of more than $680 million.

It is a modest operation.

It has always been a modest operation, catering to tourists and nautical buffs.

Enter the California Motorcycle Company, a modest operation in Gilroy, Calif.

It's a modest operation, with two screening rooms for program testing and two focus-group rooms.

Mizrahi was a teen-ager in the early aughts, when Juicy vaulted from a modest operation in the San Fernando Valley to an inescapable global juggernaut.

Now she's running a more modest operation, a lunch spot called the Garden Café, in the Y.M.C.A.-Y.M.H.A. in Princeton.

Other cost-cutting measures might involve returning to a more modest operation, as it was when it launched, which could involve hiving off advertising sales to an agency.

A more modest operation is obliged to carry out design "serially," confronting the unhappy chicken-and-egg conflict of priorities: to invest in calculation on the basis of estimated data, or to build and test with a view to acquiring the necessary data.

Conoco, which has operated in Russia nearly a decade, has one modest operation, a joint venture with Lukoil in Timan Pechora known as the Polar Lights Company, which produces about 13 million barrels of oil a year.

Under PCH Investments, which currently controls the company, L.A. Gear entered and emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1998 a much more modest operation.