average expenditure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofaverageandexpenditure
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average
adjective
uk/ˈæv.ər.ɪdʒ/us/ˈæv.ɚ.ɪdʒ/
An average number is the number you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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expenditure
noun
uk/ɪkˈspen.dɪ.tʃər/us/ɪkˈspen.də.tʃɚ/
the total amount of money that a government or ...
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(Definition ofaverageandexpenditurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This suggests anaverageexpenditureon overall training of less than e20 per volunteer in 2003.
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These are theaverageexpenditureshares for the simple-sum aggregates, which are computed under the assumption that all components of the aggregates are non-interest-bearing.
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Renewed growth occurred in the first four decades of the eighteenth-century, with annualaverageexpenditure reaching £84 in the decade 1700-9, £96 in the 1710s, and £104 in the 1730s.
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On this basis theaverageexpenditureper full time student will he about £925.
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This represents anaverageexpenditureof£4·3 million.
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I have also some figures as to theaverageexpenditureon books, stationery, materials and other equipment.
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Estimates ofaverageexpenditureon water and sewerage per household in each regional and islands council area are given in the tables.
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Theaverageexpenditure, excluding capital grant funded expenditure per pupil in grant-maintained primary and secondary schools was £2,366.
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Over the years there has been anaverageexpenditureon depreciation of round about £60 million annually.
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We have a programme which shows anaverageexpenditureof £6,000,000 sterling per year for the next six years, until 1932.
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It appears that theaverageexpenditureon hot take-away food of a single person on average earnings was 87p per week.
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Estimates ofaverageexpenditureon food as a proportion of total spending are available in the family expenditure survey and are as follows.
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If that was so, theaverageexpenditureon other items would not be at their present levels.
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Recurrent and capital expenditure on primary and secondary schools amounted to £182·3 million and theaverageexpenditureper pupil was about £500.
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Theaverageexpenditureper national health service trust on the purchase of healthcare from non-national health service providers is shown in the table.
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In the same year, theaverageexpenditureby local authorities for each supported resident in residential care homes for elderly people was approximately £260 per week.
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Theaverageexpenditureon all pupils in nursery, primary and secondary schools was £1,570.
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Does that mean that over the next four years theaverageexpenditurewill be £75 million?
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Theaverageexpenditureper pupil in maintained and assisted primary and secondary schools in 1955–56 was £44, excluding the cost of school milk and meals.
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