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The phrase "small sale" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a transaction involving a low monetary value or a minor sale of goods or services. Example: "The store had a small sale on winter clothing, attracting a few customers looking for bargains."
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[Page C1.] But a relatively small sale of stock in another company, ImClone Systems, prompted three investigations last year.
China Guardian Auctions, one of the country's top auction houses, held a small sale of Chinese ink paintings, calligraphy and furniture last weekend in Hong Kong, its first outside mainland China.
Mr. Giorgio generally deals in bigger items, but these days he does not mind writing up even the small sale that Mr. Yohn eventually agrees to -- for a push broom and a 55-gallon garbage container.
The small sale section of winter items bore out what I noticed on a visit to one of the Midtown stores (there are seven Manhattan locations) a couple of months ago: Club Monaco is more fun when it's cold out, when basics don't have to be so... basic.
The small sale -- just 38 works -- was a somber affair in comparison with the sales on Monday and Tuesday nights, when paintings, sculptures and drawings from private collections had excited buyers who vied to outbid one another and paid top prices, often breaking records.
It is a small sale with 241 lots, 108 of which are 19th- and early-20th-century figurative paintings, historic photographs of Russian troops in World War I and fascinating gelatin-silver prints of the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna Tsarskoe-selo Military Nursing Train.
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When I arrive on Monday, the trade papers report some small sales but nothing very exciting.
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