Example sentences of "sales of [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean there are so many ways to take you question , is n't it — one way is to simply look at the sales of poetry books ; well I have no idea , but my guess is that those perhaps have n't changed very much . |
| 2 | The Record Industry of America 's figures show that CD-A disc sales in the United States have remorselessly overhauled and eroded sales of vinyl recordings and are rapidly catching the booming cassette market . |
| 3 | To this end , the Halifax allied itself with Standard Life , an insurer , and now earns commissions on sales of unit trusts and life insurance through its branches . |
| 4 | Check up on possible sales of raffle tickets . |
| 5 | ( The purchase of Treasury bills takes money out of the money markets as it flows to the government , therefore sales of Treasury bills during a shortage creates a greater shortage . |
| 6 | Computer People Group Plc saw lower profits for the year ending December 31 than were expected at the interim stage due to a drop in recruitment revenues in the UK and lower volume sales of consultancy services in the US . |
| 7 | Its workstation figures include sales of server systems that are dedicated to workstation environments , tools and utilities software such as operating systems , compilers , software engineering tools and graphics libraries , certain peripherals — such as personal computer co-processor boards and laser printers — service , maintenance , custom consulting and systems integration fees . |
| 8 | Its workstation figures do include sales of server systems , but only servers that are dedicated to workstation environments , plus tools and utilities software such as operating systems , compilers , software engineering tools and graphics libraries , certain peripherals — such as personal computer co-processor boards and laser printers — service , maintenance , custom consulting and systems integration fees . |
| 9 | In Britain booming domestic sales of videocassette machines have brought the prices down and made them more attractive to institutions . |
| 10 | Wherever sales of videocassette machines are booming , there is an accompanying boom in video hire facilities . |
| 11 | Central government may assign a local authority a large guideline figure for capital expenditure but also assume it will finance a lot of it from sales of council houses , for example , and hence give a small credit approval . |
| 12 | That has changed precisely because of the figure of which the Government were boasting — the 1.3 million sales of council houses which were not replaced . |
| 13 | Sales of gold coins are soaring . |
| 14 | The 100 manufacturers , eager to cash in on the huge Christmas sales of computer games , rubbed their hands with delight as people went on a recession-busting spending spree . |
| 15 | Consumer electronics exports grew more slowly than in the previous year , but sales of computer disks rose by 31 per cent to S$7,200 million . |
| 16 | This year Moss expects less than 20% of turnover to come from sales of framework technologies — he hopes end user products will make up 80% — and only 5% or 10% during 1994 . |
| 17 | This year Moss expects less than 20% to come from sales of framework technologies and hopes end-user products will be 80% — and only 5% or 10% during 1994 . |
| 18 | Sales of mainframe systems are still thought to be earning the biggest profit . |
| 19 | Sales of OTC drugs rose 32.6 per cent , while pharmaceutical sales rose 15.5 per cent , and sales in the diagnostic and therapeutic areas rose 9.8 per cent ant 20 per cent respectively . |
| 20 | Sales of state assets helped the government to reduce the public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 21 | With the French stockmarket in the doldrums , Edmond Alphandéry , the economy minister , has estimated that sales of state assets could at best raise a total of FFr30 billion this year . |
| 22 | On April 30 a television programme had claimed that the Labour Party had hosted secret fund-raising dinners for prominent business executives , that certain companies had made significant secret contributions to the party 's campaign fund , and that these had subsequently profited from sales of state assets . |
| 23 | Publicity was directed to persuading people to switch off at peak times , and some Boards , notably the Eastern , banned sales of space heaters at their showrooms . |
| 24 | EUROPEAN SALES OF UNIX PACKAGES IS BOOMING , SAYS INTERNATIONAL DATA CORP |
| 25 | While 1992 volume sales of Unix computers in France grew between 30% and 35% , turnover from this sector only increased between 0% and 3% . |
| 26 | OSF turned over $55m in 1992 , of which $28m came from sales of technology licences — predominantly for the Motif graphical user interface — the other $27m being the $4.5m a year membership dues paid by each of the six remaining founders , Digital Equipment Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Hitachi Ltd , IBM Corp , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG and Groupe Bull SA . |
| 27 | Not surprisingly , product sales account for most of the transaction applications , with sales of greeting cards , shoes , financial services , car accessories , furnishings and clothes being the among the most popular . |
| 28 | In the UK , revenues grew 27.3% to £16.3m due to a 75% increase in sales of product licences and packages . |
| 29 | With declining sales of Cyber systems and changing industry fashions the leasing business shrank and CDC sold its peripherals operation to Seagate Technology some three years ago . |
| 30 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |