Hence, though a small-time operation, like everything else Ruby tackled, the Body Shop and Pipe Queen was the best operation of its kind in the country.

It is a small-time operation, producing 3,000 candy canes a day, compared with large factories that produce the same amount every hour.

Generally competitive, arrogant and unpleasant, and morbidly obese, Roy often belittles Joe for having a small-time operation and mocks Joe's business skills.

Chavasse soon discovers that this is no small-time operation; it reaches throughout the world and leads to the doors of some very ruthless and powerful men.

"They're a small-time operation," was the first thing Michael said when the gag was removed.

In the early 1920s, this small-time operation was taken over by Charlie Wall, the rebellious son of a prominent Tampa family, and went big-time.

But being a small-time, one-man operation means I need to make concessions to pay the bandwidth bills.

In the beginning, it was a small-time operation.

In the early 1920s, this small-time operation was taken over by Charlie Wall.

"I'm not in it to do a small-time operation," Mr. Gartner said.