Sentence examples for not then profitable from inspiring English sources

According to glass historian David C. Watts, Ravenscroft abandoned his patent in 1679, before its expiration, possibly because it was not then profitable.

Although these suggested there might be oil, further exploration was not then seen as profitable.

Third place was not nearly so profitable.

Shelby's point was that if banks aren't profitable, then they won't be in a position to lend to consumers.

"If they aren't profitable then [city officials] won't have them because it's not about safety, it's about money".

If they are to appear, truffles do so only after about five years; gathering begins then but is not very profitable until 8 or 10 years have passed.

"We are not profitable," Mike Volpi, then CEO of Joost, told Forbes in March 2009.

And not just ramen profitable, really profitable.

Verizon Wireless, then, appears to be not as profitable as the Verizon SEC reports claim because it is able to not pay billions of dollars of expenses while it makes the wireline networks, in this case the state utility, like Verizon New York, pick up the bills.

If everyone stopped using drugs then the drug war would not be profitable and there would no longer be a point.

It might not be very profitable – but then neither is the current model.