How to Use per annum in a Sentence

per annum

adverb
  • 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
  • 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
  • Machado is widely expected to opt out after 2023 unless the Padres want to preemptively tack on a few more years at a higher per annum – or tear it up altogether.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2022

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