Sentence examples for three copies before from inspiring English sources

I bought three copies before I finished.

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

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.

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

Michael P. Wallace, who follows the industry for UBS Warburg, predicted that Grand Theft Auto: Vice City would sell three or four million copies before Christmas, for reasons not immediately obvious to outsiders.

His great creation Bertie Wooster first appeared in 1916 and, in the 20s, starred in such books as The Inimitable Jeeves, which sold a staggering three million copies before the outbreak of the second world war.

Neither "The American Jitters" nor "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," James Agee's baroquely composed study of Alabama tenant farmers, with photographs by Walker Evans, came close to being a best-seller (Agee's book sold barely six hundred copies before going out of print), but they were two of the most important literary works of the era.

And to say it was a smash is just speaking lightly for the record sold a million copies before it was even released to the public!

"Black Ops 3," says Pachter, is estimated to sell between 18 million and 20 million copies before the end of the year.

But, Thaddeus Stevens was a commercial failure that sold fewer than fifteen hundred copies before going out of print in less than a year.