Sentence examples for copies before from inspiring English sources

The sales force obtained orders from bookstores for more than 20,000 copies before publication.

I was shy, but I managed to ask him for two copies before I hung up.

Despite selling 12,000 copies before Thanksgiving, it never entered the NYT bestseller list.

It sold a few thousand copies before its selection and then was a best seller.

And like "Moby-Dick," it failed to sell a thousand copies before it was remaindered.

The accompanying scandal ensured it sold a healthy 600,000 copies before the author reached her 19th birthday.

It sold 25,000 copies within six months of publication, and a million copies before Buchan died in 1940.

But other stores sold out the first 10,000 copies before they were even on the shelves.

It sold more than 100,000 copies before the truth was revealed to an army of pissed-off Dylanologists.

For her part, Mar said she had had sent many of the book's subjects their own copies before publication.

The year before, Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger had sold just 5,703 copies before it won the Booker, rising nearly a hundredfold to 551,061 afterwards.