Example sentences of "sales [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Package deals promoted by travel agents and tour operators are increasingly being used to promote sales during off-season periods . |
| 2 | There is , obviously , quite a lot of work being done in the relatively straightforward field of identifying advertising 's effect on sales through econometric methods , though it is still largely confined to about half-a-dozen large agencies and a similarly limited group of client companies . |
| 3 | This has allowed the company to develop sales through local agents . |
| 4 | I should mention that in relation to our total export turnover , sales through those agencies have not been significant . |
| 5 | But now an MP is concerned that it 's the thieves who are cashing in by using the sales as clearing houses for stolen property . |
| 6 | Government statistics out this week show that sales for ‘ mixed retail businesses ’ have grown only half as fast as sales for all retailers in the past three years . |
| 7 | However , there are reports of increased sales for such systems [ Sutcliffe ( 1989 ) ] , and even a report of ‘ Three business leaders who have mastered an executive information system now wonder how their companies ever did without it ’ [ Wallis ( 1989 ) ] . |
| 8 | Seitz will pay Kewill 4% of sales for four years from 1994 to a maximum of £625,000 . |
| 9 | Right , he 's an outdoor sales manager , he 's been with T N T eleven years , erm , previous to being with T N T he was on , two sales for seven years , and previous to that he sold diaries , business cards , business gifts . |
| 10 | Very generous financial assistance would be given by the Government , in the form of a grant of up to thirty per cent of capital and remission of all taxation on export sales for ten years . |
| 11 | Some had much the same sales after forty years as before . |
| 12 | The Daily Mail sold well over 200,000 copies daily in its first years and reached half-a-million sales after three years . |
| 13 | This is not the place to outline these in detail but , to put it simply , in the late 1970s the record industry faced a ‘ crisis ’ ( a stagnation in record sales after twenty years of expansion ) brought on by two simultaneous developments : on the one hand , an economic recession which hit particularly hard the most important sector of the record buying market , working-class youth ; on the other hand , technological developments in the leisure industry which meant either new sorts of competition for people 's leisure resources ( home computers and video recorders become as significant in young people 's lives as record players , for instance ) or disrupted record companies ' profit-making routines ( home taping thus became the industry 's chief bogey ) . |
| 14 | On sales of bi-lingual editions or other adaptations : A reasonable royalty to be negotiated payable on the Publisher 's net receipts and in line with standard publishers ' rates . |
| 15 | On sales of bi-lingual editions or other adaptations : A reasonable royalty to be negotiated payable on the Publisher 's net receipts and in line with standard publishers ' rates . |
| 16 | Sales of packeted cigarettes fell by nearly 25 per cent between 1972 and 1984 . |
| 17 | From record profits of about £34 million and near-record sales of 3,333 cars in 1990 , the car business turned in a loss of about £60 million last year as worldwide sales dropped to 1,731 , dragging down the profits of the parent group , Vickers . |
| 18 | stimulate off-peak sales of selected items |
| 19 | C Itoh Electronics claims sales of 3,000 units since its release of CIT-XE series of X-terminals in September last year . |
| 20 | Second , the Institute marks-to-market those same current asset investments , and has put into the Investing section ‘ Net profits on sales of current investments ’ and ‘ Increase in market value of current investments ’ . |
| 21 | In Varley v Whipp [ 1900 ] 1 QB 513 , the facts concerned the sale of a second-hand reaping machine which the buyer had not seen and the court interpreted the concept of sales by description to cover all sales of specific goods where the buyer was relying on the description . |
| 22 | The centralised trading operation also had a busy year , particularly with sales of commemorative items to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain . |
| 23 | encourage sales of slow-moving items |
| 24 | The rather flat results of the autumn sales of nineteenth-century paintings in New York indicated that the market remains somewhat thin , although , as usual , good pictures , attractively priced , nearly always sell , if not for the frequently high estimates given them by the auction houses . |
| 25 | The journal is a book of prime entry used to record transactions which do not pass through the cash receipts or payments books , or purchases , sales or returns day books , for example , purchases and sales of fixed assets on credit , the correction of errors and other entries of an extraordinary nature . |
| 26 | The inflows would typically be revenues from sales of products , sales of fixed assets , issues of shares and loans . |
| 27 | The inflows would typically be revenues from sales of products , sales of fixed assets , issues of shares and loans . |
| 28 | Instead , the money supply might contract over a period of time as the banking sector adjusts stage by stage to successive sales of gilt-edged securities . |
| 29 | British government finances deteriorated in the early 1990s and the prospects are for a return to large net sales of gilt-edged securities . |
| 30 | IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ? |