ESL General English Grammar Questions

Re: double- digit royalty?

Mr Wordy — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:06:14 GMT

NL888

I''ve noticed the word in your sig in which you wrote "native British English speaker". So I don't need to ask "native English speakers please reconfirm this."

Doesn't mean I can't be wrong though!

Re: double- digit royalty?

Jay_zzz0 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:06:10 GMT

Oh come on. Some non-natives are brilliant too.

Re: double- digit royalty?

NL888 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:00:30 GMT

Thank you.

I''ve noticed the word in your sig in which you wrote "native British English speaker". So I don't need to ask "native English speakers please reconfirm this."

Re: double- digit royalty?

Mr Wordy — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:00:06 GMT

"Royalty" means that Pfizer pay Marucci and his company for the right to market the vaccine. "Double-digit" means that they pay a percentage of sales revenue or profit (I'm not sure which) that is greater than or equal to 10% (i.e. there are two digits in the figure).

double- digit royalty?

NL888 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:38:49 GMT

What is double- digit royalty ?

Context:

Researchers on Monday said Avant's vaccine, licensed by Pfizer Inc in April, more than doubled the survival time in patients, with the most common and deadly type of brain tumor in a clinical trial.

Marucci, whose company is guaranteed an undisclosed double- digit royalty on Pfizer's future sales of the product, said the world's largest drugmaker has the money and could have the desire to greatly widen the scope of research on the vaccine.