Sentence examples for to consignments from inspiring English sources

The shipments, said the crown, ranged from 500kg to consignments of several tons, generating huge profits of about £20m a ton.

Although about 19 of the office's 31 employees will lose their jobs, Sotheby's in Chicago will still offer collectors full services, from appraisals to consignments.

At the same time, a tribunal appointed to investigate dubious relations between the beef tycoon Larry Goodman and Haughey dragged Reynolds into the equation, when it was revealed he had provided lavish, state-sponsored, export-guarantee insurance to consignments of beef sold to Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.

Back when Libya was isolated by economic sanctions, its Coca-Cola supply was limited to consignments of the beverage bottled at a plant in Tunisia and transported to Tripoli and Benghazi.

The house in Dobbs Ferry had been sold, the bank check deposited, the furniture taken to consignment shops.

The new commission terms will automatically apply to consignment agreements that have already been signed, Mr. Dolman said.

I will be 30 this year, and am wondering about the wisdom of spending inordinate sums on clothes that are quickly ushered to consignment boutiques.

Some of the most expensive pieces will make it to consignment stores offering bargain hunters the chance to snap up high-end clothing at affordable prices.

She has begun going to consignment shops more often than to Lord & Taylor, and she is relying on cash rather than her credit cards.

Shoppers like Mrs. Baden, some with formidable retail habits, are turning to consignment stores to offload designer clothing and accessories and to accumulate spare cash, as often as not plowing the profits back into the very same store.

She had naïvely hoped, she said, that board members would have forked over some "high-end" swag, but she discovered that "rich people give their hand-me-downs to consignment shops".