A small advertisement in a newspaper, typically one inserted by a private individual in a classified section.
小广告（多指个人在报纸分类广告中插入的广告）
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He'd replied to a number of other women through the small ads but none of them were what he was looking for.
She'd put the car in the small ads without success, so when she received a call from a company claiming it had buyers waiting to get their hands on a car exactly like hers she was tempted.
Reputable dealers are unlikely to be masquerading as individuals in the small ads.
Hobby investors can and do find real gems at jumble sales, local junk auctions and, sometimes, even out of the small ads in newspapers.
See the small ads at the back for contact details.
I find what looks like a great deal in the small ads of Drapers.
The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make.
‘I'd inserted a small ad in the newspaper, announcing that I was auditioning for ‘Salaam Cinema,’ my next project at the time,’ he says.
I also read recently how a man carried out a small social experiment by placing the words ‘Join Me’ in the small ads section of his local newspaper.
Put a small ad in a newspaper: ‘Wanted: a better bloke.’
He read the newspaper headlines and the small ads scribbled in blue biro on rows of lined cards, displayed in the window: GARDENER available, reasonable rates.
After I made inquiries at the hearing, some small ads placed in the Irish Times and dating from 1995 were faxed over.
If anyone's going down here it's Desmond himself, so downmarket that even the pages and pages of small ads have a tone of despair.
Fraudsters typically target their potential victims through letters, text messages, emails or through small ads in newspapers.
Puppies farmed typically end up being sent to Britain, Scotland or Wales and will be sold through the small ads section of newspapers there.
I'd seen the small ads in the back of magazines like this one and I'd noticed books in the mind/body/spirit sections of my local bookstore, but I had no real idea what Reiki was.
Not so much as an advert in the small ads section of the Accrington Herald coincided with the launch.
‘Buy a second-hand mirror - big enough to cover your table-top - from the small ads in your local paper, or get one cut by a glazier,’ says the interior designer Joanna Wood.
They catered, almost entirely, to large corporations and government authorities looking for staff, for whom they booked hundreds, probably thousands, of small ads in a range of often incredibly obscure newspapers and magazines.
We have tried small ads in diving mags, local papers and shop windows (I draw the line at phone boxes).