But somewhere along the line, there needs to be an actual sale.

(The actual sale of the exhibit occurs a few days later.)

"So long as you have the right to back out of a deal it may not be considered an actual sale," he said.

But we're very interested in the actual sale.

In the normal course of business, information about an actual sale would overwrite any false data.

The actual sale of the securities could be several weeks or months away.

Nor will the money be raised or spent all at once; the actual sale of bonds can be pegged to economic conditions.

He would return in three months to conduct the actual sale.

If I'm intruding, I'll wait and come back when you have the actual sale.

Its actual sale would have to await the end of the plague, for during it there was neither buying nor selling.