Sentence examples for for a consignment from inspiring English sources

British Red Cross arranged for a consignment of blankets and hot water bottles to be ferried across to Arran and distributed to residents.

Economic assessments suggest that for every day a consignment is delayed, it adds to the retail cost by 1%.

Sometimes the wait can be long, but often the amount of money that is paid for clothes at a consignment shop is higher than what would be paid at a second-hand store.

Or the once "hideous" lamps she calls Hollywood Regency, which she got for $45 each at a consignment store and remade by cutting down the long necks and replacing the wide 1950s shades with rectangular ones, for $165 each.

ThredUP has a consignment system for items it lists for $60 or more, offering as much as 80percenttoto consigners once the company succeeds in reselling an item.

Nick Smith, a consignment expert for Bonhams, said the market for Vincents was strong.

Next came $1,300 paid for a Schneider consignment: a magnum each of 1995 and 1997 cabernet franc and a dozen bottles of 1999 cabernet franc.

Iain Grant, head of enforcement at the IFPI, said: "The consumer who buys a pirate CD in a Sunday market may be putting money up for a drug consignment.

As this column noted on Tuesday, in 1990 the Colonel placed an order with Foyles bookshop in London for a large consignment of romance novels by the late Dame Barbara Cartland, who claimed to be the Libyan despot's "favourite author".

Exporters are being discouraged from seeking Standard Individual Export Licenses (SIELs), which grant approval for a single consignment of goods to be sent abroad within a two-year period.

The bridegroom's mother is a founder of the Women's Exchange, a consignment shop for handicrafts formerly in Ridgewood, N.J.