Over the past year, and particularly in the last half of 2016, sales of the brand have steadily declined to the point where it didn't make good business sense for us to continue with the line for now.

去年一年，尤其是2016年下半年，该品销的销量一直持续下滑。 对于我们来说，继续与该品牌合作已不具备很好的商业意义。

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Mobiles will continue to get steadily better, with higher resolution touch-screens, speech recognition that really works and much greater memory and storage capabilities.

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Profit margins have steadily widened since then and continue to defy analyst forecasts with their gains.

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Should demand continue to rise when total output has reached its peak, basic economics tells us that oil prices will steadily rise with demand.

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