Example sentences of "sales of [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Export sales of Pot Black immediately proved popular with Thai television viewers , and annual tours in the early Eighties by Steve Davis and the rest of Barry Hearn 's merry men presented the game 's superstars in the flesh . |
| 2 | There is also the possibility of further income for the composer from sales of sheet music . |
| 3 | One of the NME 's first innovations was the introduction of Britain 's first chart based on record sales rather than sales of sheet music . |
| 4 | Sales of Air Mail advertising increased by25% during the year and the company was able to covenant a useful profit to the Association . |
| 5 | Sales of X-Windows software and X-terminals are still booming , according to the X Business Group , which estimates growth in the X-terminal business at around 100% , while sales of PC X-server products are growing at an astonishing 300% ( UX No 398 ) . |
| 6 | The category comprises : a ) payments to the Exchequer net of expenditure by it ; b ) the proceeds of net official sales of government debt ( gilts , National savings , treasury bills etc. ) ; and c ) net receipts of sterling on the Exchange Equalisation Account ( EEA ) . |
| 7 | Turnover rose 62 per cent from £120m to £193m , with sales of construction equipment accounting for more than half at £106m . |
| 8 | More than 60% of AT&T 's $36 billion of sales comes from telephone calls , the remainder from sales of telephone equipment — the big computer-like switches that work telephone exchanges , and the smaller ones , called PABXs , that offices use to route calls internally . |
| 9 | Convinced that there are millions of pop-music fans who would rather hear about spiritual salvation than sexual perversion , and fascinated by the soaring sales of country music , gospel-music companies are busy improving their marketing by booking their musicians into concert halls as well as churches , persuading retailing chains to stock their records , making sure that SoundScan , which tracks music sales , takes note of Christian music , and creating awards for rappers and heavy metal artists . |
| 10 | Sales of cigars and cigarillos have also decreased since 1978 ( 1,730 million in number to 1,450 million in 1986 ) and sales of pipe tobacco have continued to decline ( 2.8 million kilos manufactured weight in 1986 ) . |
| 11 | Sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment also were slow because of sluggish capital spending in the semiconductor industry , it said . |
| 12 | To that end , it confirmed that sales of Lotus Development Corp 's Notes software for France 's ISDN network users should start this year . |
| 13 | This should be supplemented by sales of Linx ink from the company 's new ink manufacturing facility at St Ives in Cornwall and a planned drive to cut production costs . |
| 14 | Sales of mainframe software also increased slightly , he says , because although some clients are downsizing , the majority are freezing the size of their mainframes , and either running applications on Unix boxes or investing their money on mainframe software with more functionality . |
| 15 | However , the level of support activities to the oil industry was maintained with sales of gas oil reaching their highest level since the company was formed . |
| 16 | The level of other support activities to the oil industry , however , was maintained and sales of gas oil reached their highest levels since the formation of the company in 1984 . |
| 17 | From the time of the resurrection of handmade table ware in the United Kingdom to the present day , the booms in sales of craft ware follows closely the introductions of major technological changes and their ever increasingly felt effect on all aspects of life . |
| 18 | The Netherlands , where methyl bromide was heavily used , phased it out completely between 1981-89 , replacing it with safer alternatives , but this has been an isolated example ; world production and sales of methyl bromide increased by 5 per cent in the late 1980s . |
| 19 | Parliament ordered an immediate investigation into sales of state property over the previous two years , after hearing reports from the state procurator and the chairman of the Byelarus State Security Committee ( KGB ) , Eduard Shirkovsky , on organized crime , corruption and theft . |
| 20 | September saw strong increases in sales of clothing footwear and household goods . |
| 21 | As I mentioned a year ago , however , the then current sales of advertising space and forward orders for 1992 were seriously down , a position which persisted throughout the year . |
| 22 | When told by them that the sales of budgerigar seed were disastrous and the market might easily disappear within a few years , Mrs Franklin came back with what you may think was a simple answer — but it was profound in terms of changing British public opinion — she said , " Breed your own consumers . " |
| 23 | Those remaining — nearly 350 — will carry out a variety of functions including work on the purchase and sales of Intervention beef and the Beef Special Premium Scheme . |
| 24 | Sales of Housing Executive homes to tenants amounted to 3,191 last year , down on 4,120 the previous year . |
| 25 | Henry III continued to be in desperate need of money , however , and resorted yet again to the expedient of ordering large-scale sales of forest timber . |
| 26 | As publishers mourned declining sales of hardback fiction , they also celebrated rising sales overall ( customers will buy two Aga-saga paperbacks for every one hardback ) . |
| 27 | It is an interesting thought that Aldrich 's sales of laboratory equipment could grind to a halt as the UK 's cash-starved scientists descend on their nearest Woolworth 's looking for their highly desirable Tupperware apparatus ! |
| 28 | Matters which the partners might wish to settle in advance include their rights to bid for partnership assets ( since the court would probably not grant the necessary authority to one only of the former partners against the objection of the others ) , the transfer of assets to individual partners in specie , the manner in which sales of partnership property should be conducted ( by private treaty or at auction ) , advertisement of the dissolution , and provisions conferring special authority upon individual partners in any respect during the winding-up of the firm . |
| 29 | Over 95 per cent of ICI 's sales of sodium cyanide are outside the UK — in more than 60 countries — and it is C&P Ltd 's second largest export earner ] . |
| 30 | Last year 's sales of baseball merchandise outside the United States exceeded $3.5m ( £2m ) and worldwide interest is sure to grow when the sport makes its debut in this year 's Olympics . |