Sentence examples for sales equivalent from inspiring English sources

There is a fat tail of very big firms: the 100 largest had sales equivalent to 35% of GDP in 2009, up from 30% in the mid-1980s.

Yet despite enjoying sales equivalent to more than $100 billion a year, it barely ekes out a profit (averaging a meagre 2% margin over the past decade).

"We always referred to the Bundt as a great Hula-Hoop," Dorothy Dalquist said recently, the sales equivalent of being struck by lightning.

That is why today, we propose a levy on the tobacco industry, set annually on the basis of recent sales, equivalent to 25p a pack.

As well as seeing off competition from Mandelson, Blair's first week sales – equivalent to 4p in every £1 spent at UK booksellers last week – also beat John Major's first-week sales for My Autobiography (5,415), John Prescott's for Pulling No Punches (1,202) and David Blunkett's for The Blunkett Tapes (769), said Stone.

Discount stores are widely expected to have enjoyed a strong festive season and analysts at Shore Capital predict Poundland will reveal a 12.5% rise in total sales, equivalent to about 4% when the impact of new store openings and closures is taken into account.

According to Billboard, Memories is on pace to go #1 this week with over 200,000 sales equivalents (150,000 of which came from traditional downloads rather than streaming), making it one of the biggest electronic debuts of the modern era.

Less than a third, 32%, of shareholders voted against the sale, equivalent to just 5% of investors by value.

They are ready to invest heavily in a shipment of your new and improved flux capacitor - a sale equivalent to the GDP of a medium sized African nation.

How Big How Blue How Beautiful was released on Tuesday 2 June in the US and had sold the equivalent of 137,000 album units by Sunday 7 June, according to Nielsen Music, the US data-tracking organisation that monitors the physical and digital sales of albums as well as sale-equivalent streams.

Equivalent album units is Nielsen's term for the figure that represents traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (each time 10 units of a single from an album are sold) and streaming statistics.