Sentence examples for because of paper from inspiring English sources
And they were losing two out of three cases because of paper jams".
In Ohio, the Obama campaign asked a judge on Tuesday to keep polls open longer in Cuyahoga County because of paper ballot shortages.
"Two out of three defendants were gone — walking out the door — because of paper jams!" Ruiz looked both fascinated and skeptical.
Indian textile exporters, for instance, complain that their banks are not allowing them to take on new currency hedges because of paper losses on contracts tied to the dollar.
Leonard Marcus's "Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature" is the story of the apparatus that conjured such readers into existence: the children's librarian who chose to order "The Hobbit"; the publisher (Houghton Mifflin, Marcus's own) who brought it to market, the stores that were out of stock (possibly because of paper shortages).
(It's an indication of the incidental deprivations of life in Britain in wartime that he never managed to purchase a copy. The book could not be reprinted because of paper rationing and he had to make do, he says, with soup-stained copies borrowed from public libraries).
He has had a laptop stolen — less than disastrous because he'd backed up the data — and was once interrogated for nine hours while crossing the border because of papers he'd purchased in a local market.
We were seeing more and more kids and few of them could get into school because of paper-work problems.
They don't know you, but they think they do because a piece of paper tells them what to think about you before meeting you.
"I wound up going through a lot of paper, because eleventy krillion has ten hundredteen zeroes".
