Sentence examples for was a difficult trading from inspiring English sources

"December was a difficult trading month for some retailers," said the BRC's director general, Stephen Robertson, who said the 1.5% fall in hours worked was equivalent to the loss of about 10,300 full-time jobs.

Robert Morton at Investec said Today's full year results are good, coming in marginally ahead of our expectations and well ahead of last year in what has been a difficult trading environment.

This is a difficult trade-off.

Am trying to be a good guy, but it's a difficult trade.

It's a difficult trade-off if you want to have fresh produce in the off-season".

But squaring this with Mr Gove's promise to ensure that more parents get their first choice of school will be a difficult trade-off.

There's a difficult trade-off to be made between protecting diplomats and turning every American institution abroad into a guarded fortress isolated from popular contact (which has already largely happened over the past 15 years).

To be a destination is a difficult trade: it is nice to run a place where the food, in the famous phrase, is worth a journey, hard to keep it going when the only reason anyone makes the journey is to eat the food.

Yet there may be a difficult trade-off to be made between security and power consumption.

It's a difficult trade-off but creativity can indeed be found in brevity.

When either of the two types of method is used to scan an entire genome, or the promoter regions of a genome, there is a difficult trade-off between sensitivity and specificity.