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Discover LudwigThe phrase "Sales has dropped" is not correct in standard English; it should be "Sales have dropped" because "sales" is a plural noun
You can use it when discussing a decrease in sales figures or performance. Example: "In the last quarter, sales have dropped significantly due to increased competition."
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Since April the level of CGT that applies to property sales has dropped from 28%to20%0%.
A falling currency means that the rouble value of oil sales has dropped less than its dollar value, cushioning tax revenues and limiting the budget deficit.
Meanwhile, the number of home sales has dropped by as much as 75 percent, said Yannis Perrotis, chairman and managing director of CB Richard Ellis Atria.
Since the iPad was introduced, followed by other tablets such as Barnes and Noble's Nook, Amazon's share of e-book sales has dropped from eighty to sixty per cent.
Those numbers have been sliding ever since: even as the number of 3-D movies has increased, their share of ticket sales has dropped from twenty-one per cent to fourteen per cent.
And because the volume of sales has dropped to a trickle in the luxury market, "there are so few comps that it's hard to even know what a property is worth," he said, referring to comparable-sales data.
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Home sales have dropped.
"Sales have dropped.
Restaurant sales have dropped.
Sales have dropped for seven consecutive quarters.
Sales have dropped for eight consecutive months.
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