They make a profit of ten pence on every copy they sell.

他们每售出一本获利十便士。

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A good rule of thumb is that a broker must generate sales of ten times his salary if his employer is to make a profit.

一个很好的经验法则是，雇主要获取利润的话，其中间人必须创造10倍于自己薪水的销售额。

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They misuse the power of newspapers to form public opinion in their favour to make a profit.

他们滥用报纸的力量来形成对他们有利的舆论，以谋取利益。

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One of these companies continued to make a profit digging gold until nineteen sixty-six.

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"The government of the day decided it wanted to make a profit and I am afraid you can't make a profit out of humans, " he said.

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The willingness of some unscrupulous German entrepreneurs to disregard elementary common security interests in order to make a profit and of the Bonn government to accommodate even, in some ways, to facilitate such practices, is simply unacceptable.

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