"copies" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used as a noun to refer to multiple identical versions of an object, document, or idea. For example: "I need to make three copies of the document before presenting it to the committee."
But because we had other copies I was happy to destroy a copy in London".
In the early 2000s, pharmaceutical companies were high on activists' hit lists, prompted by Big Pharma's ill-advised attempt to sue the South African government for patent infringement on HIV drugs; an attempt to deal with the country's epidemic by allowing cheaper, generic copies to be sold.
Blair's A Journey sold 92,060 copies in its first four days on sale last week, according to Nielsen BookScan – the best ever opening week sale for an autobiography since the book sales monitor's records began, in 1998, and well ahead of Mandelson's The Third Man's performance, which sold 14,960 copies in three days when it was published in July.
The balance of 423 copies was later turned over to a remainder house.
The editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, had earlier informed government officials that other copies of the files existed outside the country and that the Guardian was neither the sole recipient nor steward of the files leaked by Snowden, a former NSA contractor.
http://t.co/LlbcPLkkmn it's Fahrenheit 451, but with computers Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 7.50pm BST19:50 Here's some video of Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, talking about why and how the newspaper destroyed computer hard drives containing copies of some of the secret files leaked by Edward Snowden.
He said he was willing to destroy a copy of the Snowden material at the Guardian's office in London because other copies were available abroad.
The relative crudeness of the work suggested until now that the works were copies, but research published in the magazine Sapiens by the architect David Agulló and the geologist Daniel Barbé shows that they pre-date Gaudí's signature buildings and were in fact prototypes for features in Park Güell, the Sagrada Familia and the nearby Colònia Güell, all of which Gaudí was working on at the time.
For more information on purchasing copies of the Guardian abroad, please contact the international publishing team.
The latest figures show the Australian's weekday newspaper fell 6.5% year-on-year to 104,165 copies; Fairfax Media's Sydney Morning Herald suffered a double-digit decline of 11.3%, falling to 112,229 daily copies.
Give any individual who requests it copies of footage of them (for a charge of up to £10).
