11.   Mostly, she said, these are the small operators.

12.   Most are small operators, like Idema, who brought in two groups this year for bus and cycling tours.

13.   One came from regulations insisting that veterinarians be stationed at every abattoir, adding costs that small operators could not afford.

14.   Opponents of the big vendors maintain that the cruelest cost is in small operators being priced out of a cart.

15.   Over the past two decades, small operators have been squeezed out by the economies of scale achieved by large feed-lots.

16.   Profits were so modest that the small operators had the art film market pretty much to themselves.

17.   She was also pessimistic about the long-term future for small operators.

18.   Small operators do not have such advantages, and building a big competitor from scratch would be difficult.

19.   Small operators will be treated more gently.

20.   They were largely run by small regional operators with little ownership stake and big conflicts of interest.