Sentence examples similar to sold slipped from inspiring English sources

A memory: an elderly Chinese woman selling slip-on shoes on Canal Street to the crush of New Yorkers who had to walk home in their office shoes across the bridge.

Earnings were once 30 cents for every dollar of beer sold, but slipped to just a penny by 1990.

Wenger's sure touch in the market, not only of who to buy but when to sell, has slipped in recent years.

Worldwide beer volume, or the number of barrels sold to customers, slipped 4percentt.

About 75 sheep and goats set to be sold for slaughter slipped out through an unsecured gate, and police received reports that Fred had been seen nearby.

Prestley Blake could not just sit by, living a happy retirement, while what he saw as the legacy of Friendly Ice Cream, the company that he and his brother founded during the Depression and later sold, started to slip away.

In the past two weeks, prices have dropped in half, and the average number of burkas sold each day has slipped to 5, from 20.

Shares of the Vancouver company are up 50% over the past year, and gurus sold as the stock slipped on light volume off of its $12.93 high.

The town wants to establish a limit on how many swimmers the lifeguards can handle, and it wants to find a fair way to sell boat slips.

Concerns among passengers that using such products might brand them as over-the-top neurotics seem to be diminishing, at least according to Angela Aaron, a fashion stylist who created and sells cover slips that fit over airplane seats to reduce exposure to germs.

That this catastrophic sell-off has slipped under the radar suggests that, unlike, say, the Royal Mail – whose gold and red crown signifies something quintessentially British – probation affects the kind of people we only give a toss about if they're in some tabloid horror-story, or painted as scrounging circus characters in a television programme.