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Through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for each; as, per annum; per capita, by heads, or according to individuals; per curiam, by the court; per se, by itself, of itself. Per is also sometimes used with English words.
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Per Quotations
It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
Steve Jobs
We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.
Charlie Sheen
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
Virginia Satir
They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
Stephen Fry
I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.
Sidney Poitier
There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.
David Ogilvy
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Jean-Luc Godard
I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.
Meryl Streep
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
Dave Barry
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
David Foster Wallace
Per Translations
per in Afrikaans is op, in, per, binne
per in Dutch is in, te, binnen, per
per in French is dans
per in Italian is al, tramite
per in Portuguese is por, em
per in Spanish is en, por
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