Example sentences of "[noun] on a per " in BNC.
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| 1 | More or less all the countries in the world which are heavily dependent on cereal imports on a per capita basis are poor countries , or rich countries with relatively little arable land ( like Japan ) . |
| 2 | Economists and economic historians have been interested in measuring poverty and wealth on a per capita basis for some time , and such data have been available for some of the advanced industrial countries for many years . |
| 3 | So effectively we 're paying , whilst we never use the typing pool or the plan print room , we 're paying a proportion of those costs on a per capita basis |
| 4 | Researchers using the Luxembourg Income Study microdata have shown that in Sweden and West Germany lone parent family incomes approximate the income of couple-headed families on a per capita basis . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , for a country which is second only to Russia for the scale of its distances ( and second to no country but Norway on a per capita energy consumption basis ) motor fuels make up the largest element of oil consumption . |
| 6 | For example , between 1970 and 1990 the distribution of income on a per capita basis in some Third World countries became more unequal , the top 10 per cent got relatively more and the bottom 10 per cent got relatively less , while the average per capita income ( gross national product divided by population ) roughly doubled in this period . |
| 7 | The Department has previously contributed towards the cost of some such places in the voluntary sector by paying supplementation on a per capita basis to top up the amount available from the higher rate of Income Support ; or by payment of a block grant for the service . |
| 8 | As the U.S. population is five times the size of Britain 's the U.K. 's reserves are now 2.5 times those of the U.S. on a per capita basis . |