Example sentences of "[prep] a per [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judge awarded Hoelzer $577,000 for his labours , based on Hoelzer 's calculations of a per diem rate of $1,600 a day . |
| 2 | The greatest gains were made by the separatist Northern League , which increased its vote from … 5 of a per cent to 9.3 per cent for the lower house . |
| 3 | But recent research shows that the ‘ constant ’ changes by a fraction of a per cent , both over a period of weeks and over several years . |
| 4 | Although the effect in any one region is small , the cumulative result is to dim the Sun by a fraction of a per cent , a year or two after solar maximum — just as observed . |
| 5 | Whereas at a younger age , the percentage increase for the age , might be , you know , point one of a per cent . |
| 6 | Most seem to be going for a reduction of about three quarters of a per cent . |
| 7 | When the government makes an award it normally provides all but about a quarter of a per cent of the extra needed . ’ |
| 8 | Figure 1.2 Excess of female population after the age of 45 years and males as a per cent of the total ( 1981 ) |
| 9 | Using acid phosphatase as a lysosomal marker enzyme , values for latency and supernatant enzyme ( calculated as a per cent of control values and expressed as means ( SEM ) ) were as follows : latency — 143.6 ( 38.7 ) % ; supernatant enzyme — 96.4 ( 2.8 ) % ( four experiments ) . |
| 10 | The countries which qualify for assistance are those with a per capita GNP of less than US $ 791 ( valued at 1983 dollars ) . |
| 11 | But in South Africa , with a per capita income twice as high , the rate of population increase rose from 2.4% to 3.1% during the same period and life expectancy stayed at 63 , similar to China or India . |
| 12 | The number of countries in Europe with a per capita intake of more than 10 litres of pure alcohol per year increased from 3 in 1950 to 18 by 1979 . |
| 13 | The union treaty also provided for the creation of a cohesion fund by Dec. 31 , 1993 , to finance environmental and transport infrastructure projects in member countries with a per capita GDP which was less than 90 per cent of the EC average . |
| 14 | This fund would only benefit member countries with a per capita income of less than 90 per cent of the EC average ( i.e. Greece , Ireland , Portugal and Spain ) . |
| 15 | r = percentage return expressed on a per annum basis |
| 16 | In some ways it is easy to share the enthusiasm of the Secretary of State for his new schools , financially independent ( except on the direct grant for students from the DES , paid on a per capita basis ) , yet with a rigidly controlled curriculum . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The doctors were paid on a per capita basis . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | he h is to , having to pick up on a per capita basis of fee earners , which is how Andrew has distributed these costs . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Furthermore , it was stated , on a per capita basis the volume of Japanese imports was roughly comparable to that of the USA or the EC . |
| 25 | Previously , allocation of funds had been on a per capita student basis , but this changed to a research project grant system . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | Oil-rich Nigeria , with a population of over 100 million , is by far the most populous and also one of the richest countries , on a per capita income basis , in Africa . |
| 30 | For non-rival goods especially it is tempting to allocate their costs ( = benefits ) on a per capita basis , but Aaron and McGuire show that this is equivalent to assuming that all individuals have the same marginal utility of income . |