Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] sales " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this has not affected sales , it has had a negative impact on profits , Sage noted . |
| 2 | This reflects a need to place greater weight on broadly based sales taxes , rather than on excise duties which bear on a comparatively narrow range of goods . |
| 3 | Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ . |
| 4 | More cost effective than any of its existing competitors , the A321 , with up to 36 more seats , is the perfect complement to the A320 which has already set sales records in the 150 seat category . |
| 5 | Locally produced sales by American firms in Japan , however , do not count as exports , nor do their local purchases of inputs count as imports . |
| 6 | One of the biggest differences is telemarketing , where a group of specially trained sales people ring doctors and hospitals all day long to try to encourage them to buy Oxford Medical 's products . |
| 7 | And the smartly dressed sales staff who swarm like pilot fish around shoppers are expected not only to know the names of regulars but also their sizes and colour preferences . |
| 8 | The hot weather has also sweetened sales of Shield and Dove soap . |
| 9 | Completions in the Midlands and South of England were 3103 , 17 per cent down from 1991 figures , which reflected both reduced sales outlets as well as the more difficult market . |
| 10 | A three-page interview with Paul McCartney in the sixth issue , says Miles , probably boosted sales from the 5,000 to 10,000 mark towards , optimistically , 15,000 . |
| 11 | Heavy advertising has promoted cider as a yuppie drink , rather than a tipple for farmworkers and a succession of warm summers has also boosted sales . |
| 12 | Taiwan and Singapore have both banned sales of rhinoceros horns and other rhinoceros products . |
| 13 | The company admits that it is disappointed with its returns from Spain , which have so far produced sales which account for just 3% of its total European total : the company had expected 10–15% . |
| 14 | In the United Kingdom , as opposed to the United States , this remains a comparatively unregulated line of business , conducted through hectic but meticulously planned sales campaigns . |
| 15 | Jean Revers , who had dramatically improved sales figures at Shrewsbury , was invited to run the Bath shop , a beautiful old narrow , timbered building on three floors with a small flat on top which the Ashleys were converting , tempted by the possibility of staying there themselves . |
| 16 | The 1992 teachers strike in Italy threw local educational publishing into confusion and seriously damaged sales across the board . |