Sentence examples for commodity only from inspiring English sources
When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending.
The first of the normal production processes is one which produces a commodity only for input use (the first commodity), inputting itself and labor.
The other two normal production processes (namely the second and the third production processes) are ones which produce a commodity only for consumption use (the second commodity), inputting the first commodity and labor.
Once burned, it is no longer a commodity but only a problem, a source of energy that has become a source of pollution.
Commodities only rarely move in lockstep, Mr. Lynch said, so the broad range of BHP Billiton's products helps insulate it from big moves in any single resource.
The recent run-up in the price of oil and other commodities only adds to the attraction of producing now while the going is good.Commodities are not the only source of sovereign wealth.
Initially it co-operated with South Korean chipmakers in basic DRAM memory chips, which have since become commodities, only to find its rivals overtaking it far more swiftly than it had expected.Others have discovered additional virtues in making things at home.
However, some of the HS-codes, even in the six-digit category, integrate multiple commodities, including instances where, among the many commodities, only one contains the metal(s) in question.
Similar findings have been seen elsewhere in SSA, with two-thirds of patent medicine vendors (PMVs), and three-quarters of pharmacies selling medicines and related commodities only in Nigeria and Somaliland respectively [ 1, 39].
"We recognize that former president Daniel arap Moi is an important democratic commodity, not only for us, but for Africa," said Mr. Kibaki's anticorruption chief, John Githongo.
That speaks volumes about the slump in economic activity and demand for not only commodities, but other consumer goods.
