per head

Example Sentences

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Meat-industry executives have long expected a major beef-processing plant to close, especially as they on average now lose about $200 per head of cattle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Another measure of living standards which the government is using to track its target is GDP per head - the size of the economy divided by the population.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025

Aircraft were redesigned to support hundreds of passengers with fewer crew members per head, while seats were clustered ever closer together.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

Once 400 Burkina cows arrived in Ivory Coast every day, but now barely 100 do so and the price per head has risen by almost 40 percent.

From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025

One way the permits had been reduced was simply by annually upping their cost by about two cents per head.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols