2010年商务英语考试(BEC)经典小作文第二篇

　　Bristol factories, with 600 employees in 2003, generated the largest profits in each quarter during 2003. But the profits reduced from ￡12 million in the first quarter to about ￡8.2 million in the fourth.

　　London factories, by contrast, contributed the least in the whole year. Although the profits slightly climbed in the second quarter, they declined in the following periods. The highest profits in the second quarter reached ￡4.1 million.

　　The profits produced by the Leeds factories were relatively stable in that only in the third quarter did the profits dropped by one million pound sterling to the bottom of ￡7million . The other three quarters saw the same profits.

　　Noticeably, the number of employees in Leeds was 350, compared with 150 in London.