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Per Annum

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What does Per Annum mean?

prep_phrase

  1. In a year.
  2. For a year.

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The plan was readily agreed to, and a nine-acre tract on Lansdowne Avenue was rented at $15 per acre per annum.
Bolton HallThree Acres and LibertyProject Gutenberg ebook #4509
This unlucky page, engaged in an evil hour at six pounds ten per annum, was a source of continual trouble to me.
Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldProject Gutenberg ebook #766
More book examples (3)
A letter-carrier receives from four hundred to six hundred francs per annum, of which the administration retains about a tenth for the retiring pension.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonSystem of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of MiseryProject Gutenberg ebook #444
“Oh, but I ‘m a practical man! What is the smallest sum per annum, on which one can keep alive the sacred fire in Rome?”
Henry JamesRoderick HudsonProject Gutenberg ebook #176
Upon the contrary the evaporation is excessive and according to the estimate of Major Powell amounts fully to one hundred inches of water per annum.
J. A. (Joseph Amasa) MunkArizona SketchesProject Gutenberg ebook #756