Sentence examples for a few commodity from inspiring English sources
The phrase "a few commodity" is not correct in written English
The correct expression would be "a few commodities" when referring to multiple items or goods. Example: "In the market, a few commodities have seen a significant price increase this month."
I can't ignore who is actually paying the price for this and I don't like the fact that a few commodity traders make billions while the people in the producing countries remain bitterly poor".
It's gone because the grass was overturned and the bison were chased off the land and the riot of biodiversity that had evolved over 10,000 years was replaced by a few commodity crops to feed us.
A recent Multi-Strategy portfolio shows large positions in three bond index funds, smaller positions in two stock index funds and a few commodity and foreign currency plays.
Fitbit's marketing personnel were perhaps a bit too optimistic in their copywriting, but the idea that a wristband sensor ought to discern reality in thoroughly unpredictable environments with only a few commodity sensors is ludicrous.
For the past 35 years, U.S. farm policy has incentivized the production of a few commodity crops (like corn and soybeans), and the calories that come from them.
Bad US Policy Boosts Climate Change on US Megafarms, says policy expert Mark Hertgaard at the New York Times, by skewing subsidies towards a few commodity crops that use vast amounts of fossil fuel.
While China's exports to the region span a wide range of manufactured goods, its imports are highly concentrated in a few commodities (see chart 2).
The economies of the region are marked by dependence on the export of a few commodities, commonly agricultural, and consequently are extremely vulnerable to external economic events.
Clear-cut gains exist only for a few commodities, such as cotton and sugar, which are not consumed in large quantities by poor households.
Analysts see little prospect of an end to the boom; the prices of a few commodities have fallen on the back of America's worsening economic outlook, but others, including oil, wheat and iron ore, continue to set new records.
On August 15th the Anglo-Australian company confirmed rumours that it was considering getting shot of some of its less glittering assets to concentrate its efforts on a few commodities.
