Before long, she had a contract and a small advance.
Technology stocks had a small advance while blue chips dropped slightly.
The $5 million production has a small advance sale of $1.5 million.
"Maus" was finally published by Pantheon Books, which gave its author only a small advance.
6. Submit the manuscript and get a small advance, which you spend on promoting the book because the publisher won't.
Even some stars say their agreements leave most of the profits, beyond a relatively small advance, to the labels.
And here's the baffling thing that I discovered: The Gesture is, at best, only a small advance.
With Candy Hill, Universal paid a relatively small advance — described as being in "five figures" — to cover recording expenses.
JR obtained a small advance from a French publisher to shoot a book about street art, and he used the money to travel across Europe and America.
Even with the small advance, housing construction, which declined each month from May through August, remained at a solid level, analysts said.
The Dow Jones industrial average managed a small advance, thanks to gains in a handful of nontechnology issues, rising 21.74 points, or 0.2percentto to 10,645.38.
