Sentence examples for overall holiday from inspiring English sources

The report found that even though overall holiday sales were sluggish in 2007, online sales remained strong.

Then the most telling figure may not be growth rates but overall holiday sales: an estimated $6 billion-10 billion.

Overall holiday sales are expected to rise 5.7percentthethe best pace in four years, according to the National Retail Federation, the main trade group for retailers.

And with overall holiday bookings ahead of last year's at many resorts, more of the same is likely at Christmas and New Year's.

Though December was weaker than expected, the overall holiday season was relatively strong, analysts said, especially when November's 6 percent increase in sales is taken into account.

The first day after Thanksgiving, called Black Friday by retailers because it once turned the red ink into black, is often used as a predictor of the overall holiday season.

It said that, overall, holidays bookings from the UK were already up 10% on last year.

"Overall weak holiday sales and a very difficult retail environment simply did not permit us to complete the turnaround that might have been possible in an otherwise thriving economy".

Figures from eMarketer put overall US holiday sales at retailers at over $1 trillion for this season, while e-commerce will be around $123 billion, or around 12percentt of all sales.

And maybe you don't see it the way I do (and maybe I exaggerate, but only a little), or maybe the joy of the season and the love for your kids filled your heart to the point that you've now forgotten the juggling and the exhaustion and the overall monumental holiday undertaking.

Overall, the holidays brought "more than double" the numbers of last year's record sales.