Annum

Examples

• This unlucky page, engaged in an evil hour at six pounds ten per annum, was a source of continual trouble to me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• These amount to about 700,000 tons per annum in normal times and at present about 900,000 tons per annum. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Their combined output is about 1,000,000 tons per annum. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• During the past ten years our population has increased at the rate of two per cent per annum, while our crop production has increased only one-half as fast. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And at the rate of that handsome sum of money per annum, and at no higher rate, you are to live until the donor of the whole appears. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• A clear ten thousand per annum. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• In six years the number of beef cattle produced in this country has fallen off about five per cent per annum. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The cyanamid plant at Niagara Falls, Ontario, which was established in 1909, with a capacity of 10,000 tons, had a capacity of 64,000 tons per annum in 1916. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester _is_ peculiar--he seems to forget that he pays me 30 pounds per annum for receiving his orders. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The cost of foodstuffs recently has been increasing at the rate of five per cent per annum. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• At the time the war broke out, in August, 1914, Germany was importing nearly one million tons of nitrate of soda per annum from Chile, South America. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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