Sentence examples for secondhand assets from inspiring English sources

The only reason it rose by 10% is because in 2012-13 there was an abnormally large sale of secondhand assets (private sector selling assets to the government) of about $5.3bn compared with just $608m this year.

After adjusting for age, body mass index, an asset index, smoking, secondhand tobacco smoke, apparent temperature, season, day of week, time of day, and a random subject intercept, the improved stove intervention was associated with 3.7 mm Hg lower SBP [95% confidence interval (CI), −8.1 to 0.6] and 3.0 mm Hg lower DBP (95% CI, −5.7 to −0.4) compared with controls.

In 1904, the grandfather helped the son, then 28, form a steamship company whose assets consisted of one secondhand ship.

Real England: The Battle Against the Bland, by Paul Kingsnorth (Portobello, £7.99) Compelling account of the stripping of many of the UK's most precious assets, from wildflower meadows to secondhand bookshops, in favour of industrialised farming serving huge supermarkets in out-of-town retail parks.

* All smoke is secondhand.

"But secondhand," I say.

Secondhand smoke kills.

"SECONDHAND LIONS," starring Michael Caine, Robert Duvall and Haley Joel Osment.

(Everything's secondhand).

We had secondhand furniture.

I bought it secondhand.