23.
Well, Malcolm. That's that. The last, I think.
Yes, yes, right, Wendy. A quite _____________, don't you think so?
Yes, _______, particularly, ____________________________.

24.
Her experience has been in __________. We're looking for someone with a public relations background and she hasn't worked in that area.
She did a _______________ in her MBA.
25-27.
Well, this isn't a senior position after all. And maybe we'll be better to ____ someone __ to follow our _______ style a bit more. And she's only ________, and he's uh, what was it?
_______?
No, that was Mr. Smith. Mr. White was _________.
Oh, yes, but there's not much in it. Anyway age is not a ___________ for this position, is it?
No, but I'm just concerned that Mr. White have _________ a different style of working, which might not fit in well here.
Yes, but if he is good, surely...
But it might cause problems if he hasn't got ______________. His experience is very _____________, even _________.
Surely, I'm sure it _____ be a ___________, I mean ____________, I mean. Why don't we call him back again?

28.
If we take Ms Stephens as well, we'll only have time for one other. We can only see ____ next time.

29-30.
I think we must be firm on this. Who do you prefer?
Uh, Mr. Smith, thirty.
With a good CV.
Mr. Jones is two years younger.
We said age wasn't important.
I go for Mr. Smith, five years with IOC in human resources.
And Mr. Jones within advertising.
Which could an advantage. It's difficult. In fact...

Supplementary Exercise Four

1. Spot dictation:
23.
Now, Linda. You're probably best known as the first woman to ____ an airline. You were _______________ BellAir.
Yes, the airline was set up in 1960 but it had never had a woman ______ it.

24.
Right. Well, we know it's been a good year for BellAir and yourself. What's the most recent success?
Well, we've just this month begun ________________________________________.
Could you tell us a bit about that?
Yes what's made such a good move is that we redeveloped our machinery too much better effect. We're now able to do _______________ to both older and more modern planes.

25.
Well, perhaps it was better than it might have been. Actually the ________ of things, the _______________, and so on, ______________. And in fact we _____________ any new engineers. But the engineers we already had required _____________________. That took _____ and _____.

26.
We've also established an alliance with Sunlines, which I'm delighted about.
What does that mean for BellAir?
Well, it's not for us a change, but I think it'll ____________. The ________ of flights won't change. And to be honest, I ____ it'll actually make ____________, but it does give us _____________ in the ______ sector where we've tended to be rather weak.

27.