we're talking big numbers here. most publicly traded corporations rack up sales running into the hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
我们这里所说的是一个很大的数字,大部分上市企业的年销售额会达到几亿美元。
funeral homes tend to be the oldest businesses in town and generally earn solid profits—one reason why, in the 1990s, large, publicly traded corporations began rolling up the industry.