Example sentences of "sell [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sold 500 bags through a special offer in Harpers and Queen , and her own business was born . |
| 2 | Higgs and Hill sold 500 homes in 1988 , but volumes dropped by 35 per cent in the first half of 1989 . |
| 3 | It sold 850 units in its first year . |
| 4 | We called ourselves January — so inspiring — and we made this record which sold 3000 copies . |
| 5 | Ontario Homes sold 120 homes and closed 81 homes , as well as some significant land sales , to achieve a 7 per cent return on its assets . |
| 6 | The album sold 18,000 copies within two weeks and entered the album chart at number 47 . |
| 7 | It was sold by Violet 's trustees to Marcus Wickham Boynton who in 1948 sold 154 acres to the Air Ministry for Carnaby airfield . |
| 8 | The Wooler decision must be a blow to EASE , which sold 60,372 cattle , up six per cent , through eight auction companies , three in Scotland , five in England , last year . |
| 9 | The same owner sold 16 pigs at £66.90 ; D Scott , Richhill sold 18 pigs at £59 and 27 pigs at £56.60 ; M Garvey NTH sold 11 pigs at £60.20 ; A Brown , Newry received £47.30 each for 23 pigs ; P Hanna , Banbridge sold 11 pigs at £46 ; S Gordon , Kilkeel , sold 30 pigs at £45.20 and 32 pigs at £43.10 each . |
| 10 | John Howell , for Anthony Hazell , the district auditor , said on the second day of a hearing into the legality of the council 's £6bn deals on the market : ‘ The council sold 49 gilt options on the mistaken belief that it was reducing its exposure . |
| 11 | In 1947 it had an average daily circulation of 2 , 134,000 copies but in 1961 it only sold 1,394,000 copies . |
| 12 | The biggest sales were of works by classic , early twentieth-century artists : Richard Gray Gallery of Chicago sold six works in the ‘ mid to high six figures ’ , including paintings by Picasso and Paul Klee , and a rare early alabaster sculpture by Henry Moore . |
| 13 | T V and a video we sold six times . |
| 14 | Annie Besant 's own The Law of Population , published in 1877 , sold 175,000 copies by 1891 . |
| 15 | When you sell 10 Kiefers , it becomes questionable whether you are refining or decimating your collection . |
| 16 | ‘ We did very well over the weekend on our van sales and sold 81,000 ice creams to the Co-op . |
| 17 | This sold 90,000 holidays in 1984 and claimed 45 per cent of the market . |
| 18 | KATH Goodwin , of the Barlaston sales department , sold 100 £1 tickets as part of a nationwide fundraising push … and five lucky winners came from Wedgwood . |
| 19 | Last year it sold 2,000 properties ; it expects this year 's total to reach 3,500 . |
| 20 | The company , which last year sold 45 farms , puts the rise in interest down to a new confidence in farming caused by European Community reform , a drop in interest rates and good prices for beef . |
| 21 | Fujitsu looks to sell 35,000 units of the new models over the next two years . |
| 22 | Izvestia , the most authoritative of Moscow 's newspapers , used to sell 160,000 copies in Uzbekistan . |
| 23 | Your report today ( earlier editions ) on Berwickshire District Council 's plans to sell 2,200 council houses makes interesting reading , especially as the proposed housing association is to operate at arms length . |
| 24 | Both men were arrested last October ( see ACCOUNTANCY , December 1991 , p 10 ) after attempting to sell 70 pages of confidential information to Michael Barrett , a solicitor for BCCI official Syed Akbar . |
| 25 | In May 1905 the two agreed to sell 70 acres of Upper Bolney Farm to the newly formed syndicate which registered itself as Bolney Estates Ltd. in 1906 . |
| 26 | Anglo United to sell eight Coalite firms |
| 27 | Re Wait ( 1927 C.A. ) involved a contract to sell 500 tons of wheat out of the cargo of 1,000 tons in the ship ‘ Challenger . ’ |
| 28 | The contract was an agreement to sell 275 tons of barley to be grown by the seller on his farm . |
| 29 | Suppose a seller with just 12 bottles of port in stock agrees to sell 12 bottles of port to a particular buyer . |
| 30 | She estimates that these actions would enable the company to sell 5,800 pairs of trousers each month . |