"Furniture sales have been down at least 20 percent and the reason for that is people are holding onto their furniture items due to tough economic times for them,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

She's thinking about putting it on her book club, and--if any of you know anything getting on Oprah's Book Club makes your sales for the next 20 years.

她在考虑把你的书放到她的书友会里，如果你们中有人知道一些关于现代文学的事情的话,进入奥普拉书友会的书在,以后的二十年都会有好销路的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Here in the United States, stand-alone record stores have given way to such alternatives as digital downloading which now accounts for about 20 percent of all recorded music sales.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25