Sentence examples for sitting on paper from inspiring English sources

Those who bought into the CELF deal were sitting on paper losses.

Small investors who were allocated shares worth £750 are now sitting on paper profits of more than £360 after the shares rose by 160p.

What may well be true is that the underwriters had to come in on Friday and support the stock so that it didn't fall below $38, in which case today they're sitting on paper losses.

Neither bank is ready to repay its bailout money anytime soon, even though the banks' stock prices have surged in the last month, leaving the government sitting on paper profits of about $18 billion between them.

Last year GuideStar was launched in Britain, putting data online that had been sitting on paper in Charities Commission and tax-office cabinets, largely unlooked at, says Les Hems of the Institute for Philanthropy, the parent organisation of the British end of GuideStar.

But Lee Shau-kee does not sound like a man sitting on paper losses approaching $5 billion.

This man was pretty unlucky that the laptop was sitting on papers and a couch, instead of on a desk like in previous Dell laptop fires.

It is best left stored sitting on baking paper or greaseproof paper.

Jeff gathers all the tiny paper wrappers from under the cushions of their couch, to illustrate that they have been sitting on tiny paper wrappers for a very long time.

Most homeowners are sitting on enormous paper profits.

Teenagers enjoy dark screaming rides on weekend nights, accelerated by sitting on wax paper or cardboard.