How to Use per annum in a Sentence
per annum
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My sick leave was six months of full pay and six months of half-pay per annum.
— Annie Lane, oregonlive, 3 July 2023 -
The high per annum pay counts against the team’s salary cap if the team decides to keep the player at the contract rate.
— Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 18 Oct. 2017 -
Ukraine should repay the loan in 30 years with an interest rate of 1% per annum.
— Katya Soldak, Forbes, 16 May 2022 -
Obama failed to achieve 3 percent growth per annum over his eight years.
— Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 7 Feb. 2018 -
Now, Trout and Rendon are both signed to extremely long-term deals guaranteeing each in the range of $35M per annum, so their loss is a big deal.
— Tony Blengino, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021 -
Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth dropped to -0.8 percent per annum, in stark contrast to the 1.6 percent year on year growth in the twenty years prior.
— Rebecca Liao, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2015 -
Interest payments on all that debt are close to $475 billion per annum.
— Jacob Wolinsky, Forbes, 5 July 2022 -
Then there's the money sluicing in -- projected in short order to be $50 billion per annum.
— Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 12 Dec. 2017 -
Someone in their 80s spends six times more per annum, on average, than someone in their early teens.
— James Breiding, Scientific American, 16 June 2021 -
If the venture industry as a whole invests $250 billion-ish per annum.
— Fortune Editors, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2024 -
The new furnace will produce 125 tons per annum, and the scaling strategy will be just to add furnaces in parallel.
— Willy Shih, Forbes, 10 July 2022 -
The crux of this view is that core inflation has not exceeded 3% per annum in the past three decades and most of the recent rise reflects base effects from a year ago when prices were depressed.
— Nick Sargen, Forbes, 10 June 2021 -
That team is covering $5 million per annum on the Arenado deal.
— Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024 -
It is expected that CR7 will earn an extraordinary €30m per annum at the club.
— SI.com, 10 July 2018 -
The production of prime plastics (virgin plastics produced from petrochemicals) has seen a growth of 3% per annum over the last few years.
— Surendra Patawari, Fortune, 13 June 2020 -
Each subscriber, paying his deposit, would be entitled to £100 per annum per share.
— Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 29 Sep. 2020 -
Ensure that passbook holders earn no interest at the very time prices skyrocket to the highest per annum level in 40 years.
— Victor Davis Hanson, Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022 -
Gross domestic product growth of 3 to 4 percent per annum is achievable.
— Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Sep. 2017 -
Only twelve delicious sizzling juicy sausages per annum for Greta and Fritz.
— David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 June 2023 -
Gross supply as of the end of June has already reached $1.2 trillion, a torrid pace considering the last decade has averaged $1.3 trillion per annum.
— Christopher Maloney, Bloomberg.com, 10 Aug. 2020 -
In another bizarre set of circumstances for the club, it has been revealed that Sporting CP spent half a million euros per annum on what is being called a 'dirty campaign'.
— SI.com, 10 July 2018 -
The report also gave details of funding for adaptation saying that the total amount of green finance was $5 billion per annum.
— Kundan Pandey, Quartz, 22 Oct. 2022 -
And it should be noted that the $4 million per annum worker was a statistical outlier.
— Nigel Wilson, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023 -
Under Maryland law, the unpaid portion of a court judgment draws interest at 10 percent per annum, and would accrue during the appeal process, which could take months to years.
— Allan Vought, The Aegis, 20 Apr. 2018 -
With demand at such a level for these $3 million-plus per unit missiles, a far cheaper MACE could potentially be ordered in the thousands per annum.
— Eric Tegler, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 -
The discretionary spend of disabled people in the USA is estimated at nearly $500 Billion per annum.
— Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021 -
Meanwhile, the economy’s potential real GDP has slowed to 1% per annum as the labor force has shrunk due to an aging population.
— Nick Sargen, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024 -
The permits Sempra received from Mexico allow for a future build-out of the facility of up to 12 million metric tons per annum.
— Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2020 -
The management fee is 1% per annum with an incentive fee of 10% with a 5% hurdle, according to materials.
— Michael McDonald, Bloomberg.com, 28 Sep. 2020 -
The art collection, valued at $50 odd billion, monetized at even 1% per annum, can easily pay for free entry.
— Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
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