Sentence examples for main export has been from inspiring English sources

For years, the North's main export has been missiles.

Traditionally the main export has been fruit, for which the Kandahār region is famous, particularly grapes, melons, and pomegranates.

The price of copper, its main export, has been high for the past few years, allowing the country to accumulate $20 billion, equal to about 12% of GDP, in a stabilisation fund by the end of 2008.

At the same time, Iran's ability to sell oil, its main export, has been severely hampered by the sanctions on the nuclear program, which Iran says is for the peaceful development of nuclear energy but Western nations suspect is intended to produce nuclear weapons.

The main exports had been bacon and beer, porn and cheese.

Since then the industry's main exports have been tinselly comedies ("Muriel's Wedding," "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert") and the bloated fantasies of Baz Luhrmann.

In Bolivia, for example, land clearing to plant soybeans, three-quarters of which end up being exported, has been the main cause of deforestation.

The progress on exports has been lamentable.

Sometimes the southern Med's main export has seemed to be boatloads of illegal immigrants.This weekend at a summit in Paris France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, wants to heal the rift.

Exports had been the main force behind Japan's recovery before they slowed this year.

Some, such as Brad Setser from the Council on Foreign Relations, believe that exports have been the main generator; others, like UBS's Jonathan Anderson and The Economist, think that domestic demand spending on roads and railways, cars and clothes, and the like has been the driving force.