Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [n mass] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK the current average expenditure on food is just under £2 per person per day . |
| 2 | For example home help was costed at £2.92 per hour in Ipswich , and £4.17 in Newham ; most day care in Ipswich was provided in Residential Homes which was calculated as involving no extra cost unless transport was provided , whereas in Newham day care was usually provided in day centres , involving a cost of just under £5 per day on top of the cost of transportation ( see Appendix IV . |
| 3 | ‘ Who would have believed that Haagen-Dazs could build a market for a product retailing at just under £3 per tub with a name that meant nothing , with understated quirky packaging in a country where a major recession was started to bite ? |
| 4 | The cost of flood defence in the current financial year works out at just over £5 per community charge payer in the Thames region . |
| 5 | What it would do is close our collieries , place this country at the mercy of international coal traders , and give Britain an added trade deficit of about £900 million per annum , for a hypothetical saving of just over £1.25 per week for the average household . |
| 6 | It raised the money through the placing of two million ordinary shares at just over £3 per share . |
| 7 | The price of crude oil stood at just over $20 per barrel at the beginning of February ( Brent light crude marker price for three-month delivery ) . |
| 8 | ‘ But an average of just over £2.50 per week , the regular giving of church-goers , even in these difficult times , suggests potential for further improvement . ’ |
| 9 | Accompanied by wonderful press release describing it as ‘ pound for pound the best value art book … high quality art publishing for just over 8p per page ’ . |
| 10 | For the remainder of this century the Canadian economy is likely to grow at approaching 3% per year with energy demand increasing at just over 2% per year . |
| 11 | The price the capitalist pays for labour is still only £10 per day but the value of commodities produced by labour is now £20 per day . |
| 12 | A pack of around 1000 resistors can be had for well under £10 , which is clearly under 1p per resistor . |
| 13 | The cost of using such established systems is high , typically about £1,500 per hour to hire . |
| 14 | Water costs somewhere around 50p per cubic metre ( 220 gallons ) . |
| 15 | While increasing the duty on wine and beer yesterday by about 5.5p per bottle and 1.5p per pint respectively , Mr Lamont said that he had received many representations this year about the taxation of spirits , especially the taxation of whisky . |
| 16 | Between 1952 and 1981 electricity generating capacity grew by over 14% per year . |
| 17 | That extra purchase price , and the cost of the more frequent oil-change services a diesel car requires , have to be balanced against the savings in fuel likely to be made — currently around 195p per gallon . |
| 18 | Sedimentation rates for intervals containing a high proportion of laminated sediment are commonly around 10cm per thousand years ( cmkyr -1 ) ( ref. 5 ) . |