Sentence examples for almost as profitable from inspiring English sources

Now the camp is almost as profitable as a year of milking cows.

It is almost as profitable as importing hard drugs, and the penalties for being caught are lighter.

The other part, which is far smaller in turnover but almost as profitable, employs engineers as consultants, solving problems with the "drilling solution".

There are now so many musicians in the semi-pro category it's almost as profitable for established musicians to coach as to play.

Prices like these make the smuggling of people almost as profitable as smuggling drugs, officials say, and the penalty for getting caught is a matter of months in prison rather than years.

It's almost twice as profitable as the sausages and cold cuts division of the company.

They almost certainly won't be as profitable for as long as they were in the early part of the decade, but they are delivering much-needed help now.

Last year the company ran an operating loss of $500 million on its auto business (most of the other parts of Fiat were profitable) and probably lost almost as much in just the first quarter this year.

GM earned almost as much in the first nine months as Toyota and is on track to report its first profitable full year since 2004.

Will we be as profitable?

Read: it's not as profitable.