Sentence examples for shipment a few from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, Mr Read was said to have told a trader that Mr Goodman was "ok with an annual champagne shipment, a few p*** ups... and a small bonus every now and then".

The freight industry has had to be very flexible in responding to the demands of the new urban economy: decreased size of inventories (zero stock), growing demand for express and urgent deliveries, fragmentation of shipments (a few parcels received each day instead of a consolidated load once a week), fast increase of home deliveries following the rapid growth of on-line shopping.

He may have lost one shipment, but a few hundred bucks versus the potential final payoff for any successful shipment is no real deterrent.

After the Sept. 11 attacks, the Energy Department suspended all shipments of nuclear fuel and radioactive waste, but the shipments resumed a few days ago.

Under this year's quota — 30,300 metric tons of authorized shipments — only a few thousand metric tons remain to be exported in 2010.

In August, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology submitted a report on its rare-earth industry that includes proposals for further restrictions on exports and an outright ban on foreign shipments of a few key rare-earth metals.

Hopefully they're rushing the shipments so a few will get there before Christmas, a minor expense that may win them some loyalty.

They work with local counterparts who may be paid in kind with a percentage of the shipment and perhaps a few guns.

The vast majority of the users came through with their shipments, with only a few hundred stragglers.

With cheap prices, perfect product and on-time shipments, he and a few partners built a multi-million pound drug empire out of essentially nothing, fostering a demand for the highly-addictive Xanax among thousands of British users.

The first shipment sold out in a few weeks, but a second installment recently arrived.