I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a monthly/annual etc allowance
▪ His father gives him a monthly allowance of £200.
an annual competition
▪ Last year he won the magazine’s annual photo competition.
an annual conference
▪ the biggest annual conference for teachers of English
an annual holiday (=a holiday you take every year)
▪ We were getting ready for our annual holiday in Cornwall.
an annual increase
▪ The company reported a 10% increase in pre-tax profits.
an annual inspection
▪ The aircraft was due for its annual inspection.
an annual meeting (=an important meeting held once a year)
▪ the annual meeting of the British Medical Association
an annual quota
▪ The US immigration laws imposed a strict annual quota for each country of origin.
an annual review
▪ There will be an annual review of your salary.
an annual survey
▪ Every council will be required to conduct an annual survey of residents.
an annual/a monthly fee
▪ An annual fee of £150 has been introduced.
an annual/monthly subscription
▪ An annual subscription to the magazine costs $20.
an annual/monthly/weekly budget
▪ The organization has an annual budget of $24 million.
an annual/monthly/weekly cycle (=the related events that repeat themselves every year, month etc)
▪ the annual cycle of planting and harvesting crops
an annual/monthly/weekly/daily total
▪ The Government plans to increase the annual total of 2,500 adoptions by up to 50%.
annual earnings
▪ His annual earnings are over £1 million.
annual growth
▪ There was an annual growth of 4%.
annual increments
▪ a salary of £18,000, with annual increments of 2.5%
annual inflation
▪ Annual inflation in 1990 was 8.1%.
annual leave (=an amount of time that you are allowed away from work for holidays etc)
▪ Annual leave is 22 days plus public holidays.
annual reunion
▪ an annual reunion
annual salary
▪ His annual salary is $200,000.
annual sales
▪ The company has annual sales of over $300 million.
annual turnover
▪ The illicit drugs industry has an annual turnover of some £200 billion.
sb’s annual income
▪ Brian’s annual income is around £43,000.
the annual/monthly cost
▪ This figure represents the annual cost of a loan.
the annual/monthly/weekly rent
▪ Our annual rent is just over $15000.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
budget
▪ The annual Budget or Finance Bill now contains a wide mixture of items.
▪ A school's annual budget share has to be managed by the governing body.
▪ As director, he will be responsible for over 4,000 kilometres of roads and an annual budget of £50 million.
▪ It is a small society and at that time had an annual budget of only £50,000.
▪ The unit employs 1,100 and has an annual budget of £33m.
▪ Our total annual budget is about £1,000.
▪ BFreeman wants to slash at least $ 400 million from an annual budget of $ 2. 4 billion.
▪ One eighth of Oxford's annual budget of £400m goes to the medical school.
conference
▪ It has long been known for its very good annual conferences, and for giving the Eleanor Farjeon Award.
▪ Speaking at it's annual conference in Newcastle, Co Down, he said it was real evidence of customer satisfaction.
▪ The annual conference is held in September on a particular theme, and attracts participants of high international standing.
▪ It carried a short item about the Social Democrats in annual conference at Northampton.
cost
▪ Edmonton recovered less than half its total annual costs from electricity sales last year, as you say.
▪ What is the annual cost of the inflation rider?
▪ In subsequent years, the number of patients in the trial were too small to compare mean annual costs.
▪ The total annual cost of fuel as calculated would then increase from 2. 07 to 2. 96 billion dollars.
▪ To this annual cost a multiplier appropriate to other forms of continuing future expense should be applied.
▪ In 1995, the annual cost of this extensive program was $ 987, 000.
▪ The average annual cost of use of the drugs is estimated at $ 15, 000.
event
▪ Until the late 1970s, this annual event occurred with a minimum of publicity.
▪ Its big annual event in Dade County, a banquet honoring the judiciary, just made me impatient.
▪ But that remains an annual event, with the sixth one coming up this August bank holiday.
▪ Last year, there were 450 people at the annual event.
▪ With the success of these first Championships, the organisers are hoping Blackbird Leys will become an annual event.
▪ Its success has spawned an annual event, drawing more than 40, 000 people.
▪ Maybe this annual event will become as well known for rare and fine records as it is for books.
▪ Looking behind the scenes at the organisation of this annual event, the video explains the history of the Popular Flying Association.
fee
▪ Once admitted, the solicitor is required to maintain a practising certificate, for which a substantial annual fee is charged.
▪ A temporary membership fee is $ 5, an annual fee about $ 25.
▪ The minimum investment is set at £500 with an initial charge of 5 percent plus an annual fee of 1 percent.
▪ Hotchkis's dinky ad budget translates into low annual fees.
▪ It charges an initial fee of 1% and a 1% annual fee.
▪ If you find a fee on your bill, call the toll-free number and ask to have the annual fee waived.
▪ Lloyds Bank was the first to introduce an annual fee of £12 for its Access cardholders in February of this year.
▪ Now more companies issue cards and many are willing to cut rates or waive annual fees to snare each others' customers.
growth
▪ The annual growth in concentration in the 1980s was 0.5 percent.
▪ It gives an annual growth rate of 2. 3 percent, according to analysts.
▪ This can be done on an annual basis with a bar graph which reveals the annual growth rate.
▪ The revised method also shaves half a percentage point off average annual growth during the four years of this economic recovery.
▪ In particular, books show an average annual growth rate of 8.25 percent while electronic information shows a rate of 20.30 percent.
▪ The overseas growth has powered the solar industry to a 15 percent annual growth rate for more than a decade.
▪ There was an annual growth rate of some 4 percent, while inflation continued to fall.
▪ The 1961-70 plan assumed an annual growth rate of 8. 3 per cent.
holiday
▪ As well as your annual holiday entitlement, the Company observes the usual statutory bank and public holidays.
▪ Elwin Silverstein, account executive with the Triad Insurance Group, enjoys the annual holiday brunch his employer hosts.
▪ It made the annual holiday more easily available to millions.
▪ The Midvale Park neighborhood sparks up a million little beacons with its annual holiday lighting contest.
▪ We offer a friendly working environment in Central London, 5 weeks annual holiday, private healthcare and additional benefits.
▪ For years, an important desire of many working people has been to take annual holidays in the sun.
▪ The statutory minimum annual holiday of five weeks was cut by two days to boost production.
▪ Tour operators have reported brisk sales since the New Year as people rush to book their annual holiday in the sun.
income
▪ You might have to produce evidence of a sky-high annual income.
▪ It has been reported in Fortune magazine that Oprah Winfrey has an estimated annual income of $ 40 million.
▪ For a relatively prosperous family, spending on cooking probably drops to less than 5 percent of the annual income.
▪ The big growth in fund investment seems to have come from baby boomer households with annual incomes above $ 50, 000.
▪ For a typical family of two adults, this is equivalent to an annual income of P£12 000.
▪ First, figure out 2. 5 percent of your annual income.
▪ Most people have a far better idea of the value of their house than of their annual income tax.
▪ Families with annual incomes as high as $ 24, 000&038;.
increase
▪ The five-year programme was budgeted to cost 22,750,000 million yen, at an average annual increase of around 3 percent.
▪ The number of state and federal inmates rose by 89, 707, which was the largest annual increase in history.
▪ Last autumn, the annual increases were slightly higher.
▪ The 1995 total marked the second annual increase in a row and exceeded five million for the first time in three years.
▪ Its annual increase in the 1980s was 1 percent.
▪ That is the highest annual increase in 15 years.
▪ The average annual increase over the past two decades is 3 %.
▪ The school tax will remain in effect for eight years, with 4 percent annual increases.
leave
▪ These holidays as with annual leave may be taken with the approval of the Board.
▪ The distribution of annual leave to nurses is of great importance to the individual nurse and to the employer.
▪ Some hospitals utilise temporary ward closures as an opportunity to give staff annual leave.
▪ And the gap will become wider if no extra staff are employed to cover junior doctors' annual leave.
▪ The manager should discuss the proposals for the coming year's maintenance programme before the allocation of annual leave to nurses.
▪ Are managers of nurses given information about annual leave arrangements of other staff?
▪ Failure to optimise the level of support to the caring team will undermine efforts to distribute annual leave evenly among nurses.
payment
▪ He may however increase the annual payment to wheat farmers under the five-year phase out plan of the old farming policy.
▪ Finally, assume that the annual payment is invested to earn an average effective annual rate of return equal to 12 percent.
▪ A scheme run by the Countryside Commission gives farmers an annual payment for neglected hedgerow.
▪ At that price an annual payment of £10 would be equivalent to a 20 percent rate of interest.
▪ An annual payment is made, the amount depending upon the animal concerned.
▪ The annual payments in 1934 were about £6and3/4; millions.
▪ But eurobonds make annual payments, and the appropriate method of calculating the yield to maturity is to use annual discounting.
▪ After this, the annual payments would decrease.
percentage
▪ The annual percentage rise in the Tax and Price Index.
▪ The yield is the annual percentage of return an investor earns on a stock.
▪ Some might say that typical annual percentage rates of around 24 percent are crippling.
▪ In the preceding example, the approximate annual percentage rate is 14. 6 percent.
▪ It may be that the courts would apply some sort of reasonable annual percentage.
▪ The annual percentage rise in the implicit gross domestic product deflator.
profit
▪ Bristol Rovers announced an annual profit of nearly £90,000 and disclosed they have £1.3m in the bank.
▪ Soon sales had increased by 17 percent and the center was turning a $ 111, 000 annual profit.
▪ But the Newcastle-based computer group Sage has surged ahead by 20p to 454p after a 32% annual profits increase.
▪ She said the company will report its first-ever annual profit in 1995, and will do even better this year.
▪ The small annual profits of the Edinburgh and Dundee clubs were interspersed with losses and no dividends were distributed to shareholders.
▪ The growers who are crying wolf today about the lack of water will post their annual profits in a few months.
▪ Reckitt &038; Colman also revealed annual profits at the top end of market expectations, but the price slipped 3p to 603p.
▪ Tokyo stock exchange-listed companies are forecasting annual profit growth of just 0.6 per cent between October and March 2001.
rate
▪ That points to an annual rate of 310%.
▪ The volatility of the underlying bond futures fell to an annual rate of 7. 95 percent.
▪ The national income had doubled since 1948; in the period 1951-73, the average annual rate of growth was 2.3 percent.
▪ M3 expanded at an annual rate of 1. 9 percent in the first 11 months of 1995.
▪ This is used by some banks to express the rate of interest as an annual rate.
▪ Its exports are rising at an annual rate of nearly 20 percent.
▪ Since gilts pay a fixed annual rate of interest, you would be locking in a higher return before the rate cut.
▪ Velocity had fallen to 2.2, an annual rate of decline of nearly 5 percent.
report
▪ Bennett has set out the supposed pros and cons in the annual report.
▪ Watching the detectives Today Ofsted publishes its annual report on schools.
▪ An annual report will be presented to the Lord Chancellor and will be laid before Parliament.
▪ The second man smiles, wags his index finger and picks up a copy of his company's annual report.
▪ The aim, as stated in the company's annual report is to support multiple servers.
▪ The annual report artificially parcels up the underlying economic trends into years.
▪ The authority must receive an annual report.
▪ Public companies have to publish an annual report and accounts.
revenue
▪ The top 10 percent of the people receive half the annual revenue.
▪ Assist-A-Care generates annual revenue of more than $ 6 million.
▪ He ranks just fourth in total assets, with a nine-billion-dollar annual revenue flow.
▪ C., with annual revenue of about $ 45 million.
▪ Yet Pitt during his first eight years managed to raise annual revenue from £12.5 million to £18.5 million.
▪ This was to he supplemented with one-third of the annual revenue.
▪ Together, the two companies will have $ 8. 4 billion in annual revenue.
▪ And the Wang derives almost half its annual revenue from Ballet rent, concessions and gimcrack sales.
revenues
▪ It has 17, 000 customers and $ 16 million in annual revenues.
▪ Record industry executives called Napster's offer inadequate for an industry with annual revenues of $ 40 billion.
▪ E $ 5 million in annual revenues.
▪ He said an agreement had been struck whereby Freeport would provide 1 percent of annual revenues for social development programs.
▪ Falcon Seaboard, a privately held company with annual revenues of nearly $ 300 million, employs about 300 employees.
▪ In August 1998, the company was reported to have had annual revenues in excess of $ 100 million.
review
▪ The Head of Department is responsible for the annual review of the fields sponsored by his or her department.
▪ It will provide supporting material for the annual review of implementation and, where necessary, clarify or supplement information received.
▪ Clinical assessments were estimated to take on average 9.8 minutes for a regular review and 13.4 minutes for an annual review.
▪ When your annual review is due, summarize all your achievements for the period and present them to your employer.
▪ There are also annual reviews with clients.
▪ On this model, annual reviews of fields continue to be produced, but are as spare as possible.
▪ They could quite easily form part of the agenda for the annual review of these institutions in their new roles.
▪ The port authority's latest annual review of the local economy reckons the city will lose another 32,000 jobs in 1993.
salary
▪ Every hour we are paying for the services of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at an annual salary of £63,047.
▪ With stock options added to his $ 700, 000 annual salary, McAllister makes more than a million dollars a year.
▪ Between 1987 and 1989 annual salaries for assistant solicitors rose by well over half, to £20,000-70,000.
▪ He reportedly earns an annual salary of $ 20 million.
▪ He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27.
▪ In the Federal Government, the starting annual salary for junior accountants and auditors was about $ 18, 700 in 1995.
▪ Ward sisters would get an additional £4.31 a week, giving them a new annual salary of £15,184.
sale
▪ The company reports 2000 annual sales of $ 4 million and $ 5.6 million cash on hand.
▪ These presentation were made during the annual sales conference.
▪ Its Rockport unit had about $ 314 million in annual sales.
▪ Cointreau is slightly smaller with annual sales in the region of £300 million.
▪ When the Petrini family sold the chain in 1987, it had annual sales of about $ 150 million a year.
▪ These groups were selected on the basis of their annual sales and total assets.
subscription
▪ You produce a good magazine each month; the readers' letters alone are worth the annual subscription.
▪ The annual subscription fee is £8.
▪ Please find enclosed a cheque for £12 annual subscription for an organisation.
▪ The Association was open to anyone resident in the island who was prepared to pay the annual subscription of one guinea.
▪ With inflation an annual subscription of £25 is not enough!
▪ As you may know, we charge an annual subscription of £32.50.
▪ The annual subscription is, incidentally, an allowable expense and can be paid by instalment if necessary.
▪ It is updated quarterly and annual subscriptions are priced at £1,000.
turnover
▪ Some inner city practices now have annual turnovers over 30%.
▪ The level of business exported currently stands at 20 percent of Rolls Wood Group's annual turnover.
▪ He has been with the group, which has an annual turnover of £8-9m, for the past seven years.
▪ All in all, around £3.5 billion of the company's annual turnover might be chopped out.
▪ On the domestic market, total annual turnover of £433 billion was the highest since 1987.
▪ But he pointed out that his annual turnover was well above £1m.
▪ Professional villainy now boasts an annual turnover of £14 billion.
▪ He will support seven managers and staff, dealing with businesses with individual annual turnover of more than £1m.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Her annual income is about $75,000.
▪ the annual school homecoming dance
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He announced his decision at the annual Board of Trustees' retreat on September 10.
▪ In the first half of the 1970s, the economy was growing at an annual rate of 7 percent.
▪ It gives an annual growth rate of 2. 3 percent, according to analysts.
▪ Much to the scientists' surprise, summer conditions left visible annual strata.
▪ The plan was to avoid annual parliamentary wrangles.
▪ The yield is the annual percentage of return an investor earns on a stock.
▪ To try to cut down on internecine warfare, Mr Florio oversaw annual meetings at which he encouraged publishers to work together.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
▪ P 500-stock index and the Dow Jones industrial average produced average annual 10. 5 percent returns.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He is correct, Gedge still has Beano and Dandy annuals filed next to his records and many other souvenirs.
▪ He would never scribble in his annuals and had them all in order.
▪ In addition to the above, annuals are normally covered by standing orders, which eliminate repetitive clerical work.
▪ The flower bed can then be augmented with annuals later in the year when the bulbs are over.