ADVERB
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by the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received)
we issue six volumes per annum
he earned $100,000 per annum
How To Use p.a. In A Sentence
- A statute of 1337 in England restricted the wearing of furs to those with an income of £100 p.a., while a later scale confined ermine to the richest and restricted the poor to the furs of humble creatures, such as the cat, coney, or fox.
- What he does grasp and very much wants to convey is that Ed Lazar was someone special. "He was not your average C.P.A., " he writes with a son's understandable pride.
- Detectives never found the rude female passenger at whom he had allegedly directed his P.A. tirade, and who he said gashed his head with a piece of luggage. Sorry for Rough Landing
- I see. Another thing I don't understand at this moment is the advantage of W.P.A., coverage.
- Assuming the E.P.A. Puts its intrusive restrictions on the economy coupled with cap and trade legislation with health reform that bloats the deficit, I, along with every other american willing put a little foresight into what seems to be happening to our way of life since this administration took power can easily tell that we wont be seeing any truly good news for some time to come, if ever again. Obama: 'Economy is growing again'
- On this survey see the criticisms of Philip Klass and John Robinson in the current issue of The Zetetic, with replies by P.A. Sturrock, the ufologist who made the survey. Dear Poetry Editor,
- The card was neatly lettered P.A. DUFFY.
- From his complaint: That they have in cooperation with the other defendants and their attorneys conceived the plan of branding the complainant as a lunatic and have worked in harmony with the officers of ASCAP and MPPA (Music Publishers Protective Association) to oust the complainant from the W.P.A. and have caused him to starve. Archive 2007-02-01
- This division was so diligent that in 1940, when a Congressional subcommittee investigated the W.P.A., it couldn't find a single serious irregularity that the division had missed.
- The P.A. system clicks on and a woman's monotone voice tells us that she will be announcing the first panel of the day.
