Sentence examples for small proprietors from inspiring English sources

Dating back centuries in some cases, trulli were generally constructed as temporary storehouses or permanent dwellings by small proprietors or agricultural labourers.

Clos Vougeot is only 87 acres - nothing, only six times bigger than the Manoir - and owned by 85 small proprietors - but I love it very very much.

Some small proprietors said they were trying to stay afloat by looking for longer-term guests, who need a room for at least 30 days — one woman who went that route estimated her business was off by 80 percent — but many were just trying to keep their heads down.

Several stores have shut their doors and many small proprietors are trying to bail out.

Most of the rest are owned by small proprietors who are squeezed on all sides: by faltering tobacco sales, by 24-hour supermarket and drugstore competition and, of course, by Wal-Mart.

In "A Notice to Evict, Served on a White Tablecloth," by Dan Barry (About New York column, July 22), we learn of yet another small proprietor in some New York City neighborhood who is shutting his doors.

Like most small museum proprietors, Mr. Cimino dreams of a bigger space, a curator, a staff.

For small business proprietors, time is scare and likewise impacted by junk calls.

He started studying the Malayan rubber industry, was impressed by the success of small peasant proprietors and published a book on the subject in 1948.

How many of them were descended from small Roman proprietors, how many from Roman tenants who had seized their chance in the confusions of the 6th century, and how many from the rank and file of the Lombard army is unclear.

What does 2007 hold for small business proprietors?