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We can travel through time. And we do at the remarkable rate of one second per second.
How much does he spend per month?
Tom earns more money per hour than I do per week.
Fifty-two per cent of British women prefer chocolate to sex.
How much is the rent per month?
The airplane flies at a speed of five hundred kilometers per hour.
This firm manufactures cars at the rate of two hundred per day.
How much is the tour per person?
I was driving at 120 kilometers per hour when the police stopped me.
The factory now under construction will assemble 3,000 VCR units per day.
What's the price per night including all charges?
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
She earns 30 dollars per day.
I have spent 500 dollars per day.
The Japanese fishing fleet catches more than 1000 whales per year on the pretext of scientific research.
I make 100 euros per day.
In this country the average number of children per family fell from 2 to 1.5.
We have a single for 50 dollars per night.
The velocity of light is about 186,000 miles per second.
Movie subtitles
We're gonna be firing this at around three-and-a-half kilometres per second.
As per Harry's calculation, that's one litre per hour for the first eight hours.
I would need guaranteed overtime and per diem when we travel.
One inch per hour.
Per my orders, the letters incriminating the signatory of the Overseas Bank were not returned to him, even when very large sums were offered, until he agreed to comply completely with our demands.
Per the instructions you have just received, at exactly 11:00 tomorrow night you will break into the bank and replace the bills now deposited in the bank with the counterfeit bills so that the bank itself will distribute the counterfeit money.
Sixty per day.
Thus, all together we have six heads for a thousand per month.
Proceed to the hanging, per schedule.
Fifteen per hundred.
Fifteen per hundred?
As soon as Father restores our lawful stipend of 15 taels per month. he will find us as useful as ever.
You'll take two.30 caliber machine guns, 1,000 rounds of ammo per gun.
Per hydrogen atom it happens once every ten million years!
The private in the Legion is a no bargain with 75 centimes per day.
And aircraft? - 150 airfighters, 50 air bombers per day.
Tomorrow it's 20,000 francs per day.
Per film?
I, your Wizard per ardua ad alta am about to embark upon a hazardous and technically unexplainable journey into the outer stratosphere!
You see, ambition is all right if it works. But no system could be right where only half of one per cent were successes and all the rest were failures.
You didn't per chance receive a visit from a man with a bullet wound?
Now, we'll put them in the envelope. as per the agreement.
Each student is allowed 100 demerits per semester. You're lovelier than I remembered.
Per month, young man.
Davidson decides to risk a lot of money. Lubitsch hires prominent young Berlin actors such as Emil Jannings and Harry Liedke with a rate of up to 35 marks per day.
SONIA, WERE YOU ON DUTY LAST NIGHT AS PER INSTRUCTIONS?
I paid twenty frances per head in advance!
With matinees, 2,000 francs per month. Not bad for these times.
Of course, you know the price per yard- - Bernard.
We'll proceed with the hanging per schedule.
Each student is allowed 100 demerits per semester.
No soap gives you more happiness, more washings and more suds per package, than Happy Hour Bubble Suds.
I came through the side door, as per instructions.
In '37, when the State gave to those who built public housing a contribution of 4,000 lire per room, he made two deals.
The stain is decolourised with five per cent sulphuric acid and washed with potash, alum and methylin blue.
Muzzle velocity in feet per second: 2, 183.
Average time per round: eight seconds.
News and current affairs
Cutting speed limits to, say, 10 kilometers per hour would prevent most accidents and save many lives.
Kagame then suggested giving every country an annual per capita quota for CO2 emissions, and allowing developing countries that are below the quota to trade their excess quota with countries that are above theirs.
In fact, the world's per capita emissions were 4,700 kilograms, or more than double the permissible limit.
US per capita greenhouse gas emissions, already the highest of any major nation when Bush took office, have continued to rise.
This year or next, China will overtake the US as the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter - on a national, rather than a per capita basis, of course.
Allocate to each country a greenhouse gas emissions quota equal to the country's population, multiplied by the per person share.
It would give developing nations a strong incentive to accept mandatory quotas, because if they can keep their per capita emissions low, they will have excess emissions rights to sell to the industrialized nations.
International support so far has been generous, but it is still well below per capita equivalents for other post-conflict situations - and the need is much greater.
David Victor, an energy expert at the University of California, San Diego, estimates that the shift from coal to natural gas has reduced US emissions by 400-500 megatonnes (Mt) of CO2 per year.
Accounting for a reduction of 50 Mt of CO2 per year, America's 30,000 wind turbines reduce emissions by just one-tenth the amount that natural gas does.
Yet its per capita CO2 emissions have fallen by less than half of the reduction achieved in the US - even in percentage terms, the US is now doing better.
Oil, gas, and mining generate billions of dollars per year for governments and companies.
On average, per capita income in the countries that are the source of these investments is four times higher than in the target countries.
Gallup's results, which form the basis of the World Giving Index 2014, indicate that approximately 2.3 billion people, a third of the world's population, perform at least one altruistic act per month.
African farmers produce roughly one ton of grain per hectare, compared with more than four tons per hectare in China, where farmers use fertilizers heavily.
So we invested in education and science, and today we have the world's highest percentage of scientists and patents per capita.
The name comes from the number of parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that, according to Jim Hansen, perhaps the world's leading climate scientist, we should not exceed if we are to avoid potentially catastrophic climate change.
Sri Lanka took a similar stance, using studies from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to calculate that in 2008, environmentally permissible carbon emissions totaled no more than 2,172 kilograms per person.
Allocate to each country a greenhouse gas emissions quota equal to the country's population, multiplied by the per person share. Finally, allow countries that need a higher quota to buy it from those that emit less than their quota.
I moved to mainland China in 1979, when the country's per capita income was less than one-third of Sub-Saharan Africa's.
The per capita income of the new countries is less than half of that of the fifteen members they are joining.
Per hundred thousand residents, the US has an incarceration rate over five times that of England, six times that of Canada, and seven times that of Germany.
The number is estimated to be around 270 million, or almost one per person on average.