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He says air conditioner sales 'bottomed out' in July. This means they reached their lowest
level.
Then he says they 'experienced a sharp increase'. And he says there was a 'pronounced'
drop in heater sales in October. 'Pronounced' here means significant, or large. Finally,
look at how Tan talks about his pie diagram.
...if we look at this pie diagram, you can see that air conditioners and heater sales together
represent more than half of our total sales - but they vary seasonally, while other
appliances are fairly steady through the year.
Tan says air conditioners and heaters 'represent' more than half of sales. This means they
account for more than half of the sales. We could put this another way:
More than half of sales are represented by air conditioners and heaters.
We could say washing machines represent 15% of sales.
Washing machines account for 15% of sales.
Washing machines make up 15% of sales.
And that's accounted for our time today in the Business of English. See you next time.