Sentence examples for tight sales from inspiring English sources

It broke away from a tight sales race with Mercedes-Benz in the final month, selling 43,855 units in December, pushing the final 2012 tally to 347,583 vehicles, the automaker said, up 13.8 percent from 2011.

Money was getting very tight: sales at the bookstore were bad, so Hector got a job as a short-order cook at a diner at night, then started working the early-morning shift on the line at a factory.

In anticipation of a tight sales market, ABC gave back 60 30-second spots (of about 1,000) to its affiliates to sell and then split the revenues with the network.

"And in the toy business, with our very tight sales periods, that can be fatal". It has to be said that Meccano's decision to repatriate production was helped by a big loan: 2.2m euros from France's Strategic Investment Fund, which was set up to help companies get through the financial crisis.

He published a widely cited study in 2009 that found that states with strong gun dealer regulations and oversight as well as tight sale permits had less diversion of guns to criminals.

Sotheby's made the most of a tight sale.''.

The company operates in the highly competitive office solutions space, where margins are tight and sales and customer relations are key.

But the market remains extremely tough, particularly to new entrants with no celebrity backstory to help them on their way, for whom advances are tight and sales of a few thousand a huge achievement.

I literally walked into Hot Topic and picked up these neon tights on sale and I chose the fake purple eyelashes because they're just the coolest".

According to Gallup polling, the percentages of Americans in favor of tighter gun sale laws and handgun bans have also dropped to near-record lows.

First, you might lower the other party's expectations by explaining beforehand that you don't have a lot to give whether due to a slow year, a tight budget, disappointing sales, and so on.