111.   That represented a sales increase of almost a third from the previous year.

112.   That followed a steady stream of sales increases in the earlier months of the August-to-October quarter.

113.   The actual sales increase may never be known, because stores are not required to declare their week-by-week sales receipts.

114.   That would represent a sales increase from October and November.

115.   The big sales increase reflects the purchase last summer of the struggling speciality chain Zany Brainy.

116.   The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company said the sales increase offset costs to expand overseas and to set up its business of selling through the Internet.

117.   The company, Gill said, is achieving double-digit sales increases in its U.S. contact-lens and eyewear businesses.

118.   The cuts, however, will not severely hurt profit margins at Japanese drug makers because sales increases will continue to outpace the price declines.

119.   The Demio multipurpose compact car and the Bongo Friendee minivan led the sales increase, said Hiro Akutagawa, a Mazda spokesman.

120.   The current week will be compared to a week earlier in the prior year, and as Christmas approaches the sales increase each week, Harris said.