These men bought the land, held it for a while, then sold it for more than they paid.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Portugal's borrowing costs rose sharply Wednesday as it sold almost one and a half billion dollars in short-term securities.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

More than fifty million copies of Doctor Spock's "Baby and Child Care" book have been sold since it was published.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

It says for every ten dollar necklace sold, the beader gets two dollars and forty-three cents in money or materials.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

One hundred eighty thousand copies of "Main Street" were sold in the first six months after it was published.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

It used to be that players in professional sports could change teams only if they were traded, sold or released.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

Publisher Simon and Schuster says it has sold two hundred million copies of Nancy Drew books in twenty-five languages around the world.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

It has sold off its less profitable kinds of cars, closed factories,cut jobs and closed sales centers.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

It also estimates that up to fifty percent of the medicine sold on the Internet is counterfeit.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

It says those doughnuts represented just sixty percent or so of all the doughnuts sold in supermarkets.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

It sold more than one million copies and reached the top five on the music charts.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

By the end of its first week on the market it had sold two million copies.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

Apple says it sold one million iPads in April, the first month it offered the product.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

His painting was sold to the person who offered to pay the most money for it.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

Still,it has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold over forty million copies.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

In eighteen fifty-one, he sold the house and the land around it to the federal government.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

More than half of them sold their work or gave it away to family and friends.

VOA: special.2009.05.18