Example sentences of "in [noun pl] per [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consult the chart for a general idea of how reading speed ( usually calculated in words per minute ) relates to : |
| 2 | These low thresholds gave an urban population embracing about 90 per cent of the total , and the rural/urban differences shown in Table 5.6 , which reveals that the greatest contrasts are to be found in cars per household and the percentage of people travelling to work on public transport ( both related to each other and to the low density of rural areas ) ; the percentage in social classes I and II ; the rate of unemployment ; and the percentage of those working in manufacturing . |
| 3 | From Raoult 's law by substituting these equations into equation ( 1 ) , we obtain We saw in section 4.1 that where m is the mass in grams and M is the molar mass in grams per mole . |
| 4 | That is a scale of acidity and alkalinity based on 14 times the logarithm of the ratio of disassociated hydrogen ions in an aqueous solution measured in grams per litre . |
| 5 | The bone density was calculated using a calibration phantom containing known concentrations of K 2 HPO 4 solution and expressed in grams per litre . |
| 6 | This is defined as the negative logarithm to the base 10 of the H + ; concentration in grams per litre . |
| 7 | It concludes — you want a quote from a famous person — ‘ In his decision letter of the sixth of September , the Secretary of State for Energy accepted this recommendation , ’ that is , that the figures are quoted in kilogrammes per stations with appropriate error bands specified for the quantities per station |
| 8 | Extrapolations for drug costs can not be made from the prescribing unit because of the age and sex related differences in costs per item that we have shown . |
| 9 | Cos there 's about a twenty five percent in workers per hectare , which actually would lead to about a third a third increase in the provision . |
| 10 | London passengers pay the highest charges in fares per mile for bus , tube and rail travel in the whole of the European Community . |
| 11 | Table 9.5 Personal Social Services for children aged 5–17 : contributions ( in pounds per child aged 5–17 ) to GRE from lone-parent families , assessed at average values for Inner London |
| 12 | Female fertility is measured in eggs per day , and male fertility is measured as the percentage of progeny relative to a standard competitor . |
| 13 | It has produced a 25 per cent compound growth in earnings per share in the last five years . |
| 14 | Growth in earnings per share is the key short-term measure so far as the City is concerned . |
| 15 | Opinion-influencing analysts and commentators concentrate on the potential dilution in earnings per share . |
| 16 | Before tax , it made £90.4m , down only 4 p.c. , although the slide in earnings per share was steeper at 12 p.c. , to 7.58p fully diluted . |
| 17 | ESD , the electronic components distributor bought from Northern Telecom last July , accounted for the tiny rise in earnings per share to 16½p ( versus 16.3p ) on a fall in pre-tax profits to £32.7m ( £33.8m ) . |
| 18 | The note adds that directors participate in a long-term , performance related incentive plan based on growth in earnings per share above a minimum level over a four-year period . |
| 19 | It is concerned that tying schemes to growth in earnings per share is less appropriate , as this number can be influenced by the precise accounting treatment of certain items . |
| 20 | In total , this led to a 40.4% drop in earnings per share . |
| 21 | This , he said , has translated into a 22% improvement in earnings per share to 17.7 pence . |
| 22 | We had another excellent year in nineteen eighty nine with a twenty percent increase in earnings per share and a nineteen percent increase in dividends per share . |
| 23 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
| 24 | My own feeling is that there is a great similarity and that there is a a base salary normally which is set on a competitive level with a target as in this case perhaps at the mid-point , perhaps at the sixty percent level or whatever it would be and that a significant uplift in compensation can be obtained by a bonus scheme , if the performance of the company as measured in earnings per share , return on capital , return on equity or any m other measure if those objectives are met . |
| 25 | Er , I hoped I 'd made clear that if the profits of Pearsons erm er not only if they went down but even if er , there was only a small erm , increase in earnings per share er next year that the the directors ' salaries would be very considerably reduced and I thought I 'd already made that erm , er , directors ' erm remuneration total take home pay would be considerably reduced thought I 'd already made that point . |
| 26 | Last year 's tax charge of £19.2m also includes a credit of £4.8m ( restated as exceptional and included in earnings per share under FRS 3 ) which related to the favourable House of Lords verdict in the Johnson Matthey Bankers case . |
| 27 | At present , such guidelines require that options may not be exercised until at least five years from their date of grant and then only if over a five year period following the date of grant the Company has achieved growth in earnings per share which exceeds the growth in the Retail Prices Index by at least ten percentage points . |
| 28 | Where the target 's share price is depressed , a buy-back at market price may produce a modest improvement in earnings per share or asset value per share . |
| 29 | The ABI also requests that , in the circular to shareholders , there should be an undertaking that the authority to buy-in will only be exercised if so to do would result in an increase in earnings per share and is in the best interests of shareholders generally . |
| 30 | If the concentration difference K=Ca 2 + ; -3H + ; is positive then , for example , brown trout will thrive ; if negative they may not survive ( concentrations are expressed in microequivalents per litre ) . |