Sentence examples for shipments about from inspiring English sources

The largest number of Lumia shipments — about 200,000 units — went to Germany in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to the research firm Canalys.

In 2012, trucks moved 68.5 percent of the country's domestic shipments – about 9.4 billion tons of freight – generating $642 billion in revenue and maintaining an inventory of nearly 7 million trucking-related jobs.

In the 1970s, the company had its license suspended for mishandling shipments – about the same time state officials say the material that exploded and burned last weekend was accepted and buried.

He added that Odyssey was talking to the company that insured the money shipment about how the profits from the recovery would be divided.

The new report showed that only a fraction of the suspect shipment, about 165 pounds, was sold to the German sprout grower whose sprout mixes authorities think caused the devastating outbreak there.

In December, the Belgian monks of the St. Sixtus abbey, who usually sell their prized dark beer, Westvleteren 12, at the monastery, permitted a one-time, wickedly expensive shipment (about $85 for a gift box of six bottles and two glasses), to cover costs of repairs, like a new roof.

Lee sends up identity politics in brave, funny works such as "Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven," in which she took on stereotypes of Koreans; "The Shipment," about blackness in a so-called post-racial America; and "Untitled Feminist Show," which had all sizes and colors of women gallivanting nude.

IDC says that the Surface platform as a whole accounted for just 1.5% of global tablet shipments - representing about 640,000 units - over the first three months of the year, down from a 1.8% share for the same period in 2013.

Based on these figures and world totals, desktop shipments are about a third of overall shipments.

Shipments were about 16.4 million units, a drop of just 0.2 percent, according to IDC.

Sales rose 12percentto to $1.55 billion, while shipments dipped about 10percentto to 1.522 million tons.