Meaning: n. an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas. adv. by the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received).
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1, a salary of £20 000 p.a.
2, The card was neatly lettered P.A. DUFFY.
3, an increase of 3% p.a.
4, Interest is charged at 0.5 percent p.a.
5, An average growth rate of 11 % p.a. in real manufactured exports,[http://sentencedict.com/p.a..html] reflecting increased competitiveness.
6, Perhaps those owners applied for permits from the Army Corps of Engineers, which shares jurisdiction with the E.P.A. in such matters.
7, Before long an emergency announcement came over the P.A. system: "This hotel is constructed to be absolutely earthquake-proof. There is no danger of the building collapsing.
8, The E.P.A. has recently set rules for measuring and rating the energy use of servers.
9, I should like to point out that our prices were calcu- lated without insurance for any special risk. So we applied for the usual W.P.A. coverage and let our customers deal with the matter of breakage.
10, Before long an emergency announcement came over the P.A. system: "This hotel is constructed to be absolutely earthquake-proof.
11, In 1997, for instance, the E.P.A. moved to reduce surface ozone, a form of pollution caused, in part, by emissions from oil refineries.
12, Well. Sometimes the P.A. and the judge and I all have the same adversary.
13, A Port Authority official came over the P.A. system and urged people to stay at their desks.
14, There are never any complaints from our clients, and our insurance company has also approved such packing for W.P.A. and T.P.N.D.
15, Both organizations are called A.P.A., and neither will relinquish the shortened form to the other.
16, I sold most of my gear, including my P.A. system, flute, and keyboard, for pennies on the dollar.
17, This division was so diligent that in 1940, when a Congressional subcommittee investigated the W.P.A., it couldn't find a single serious irregularity that the division had missed.
18, I see. Another thing I don't understand at this moment is the advantage of W.P.A., coverage.
19, What he does grasp and very much wants to convey is that Ed Lazar was someone special. "He was not your average C.P.A., " he writes with a son's understandable pride.
20, They are extensively used in our shipments to continental ports. There are never any complaints from our clients, and our insurance company has also approved such packing for W.P.A. and T.P.N.D.
21, The new rules proposed by the E.P.A. and the Department of Transportation reflect the different patterns of use for varying types of trucks.
22, Trainees are paid on Clinical Scientist grade A, which is currently ￡9,239 p.a. increasing by annual increments.
23, Where applicable, a London Weighting Allowance of ￡1702, ￡1012 or ￡160 p.a. will also be paid.
24, This issue raises a whole series of complex methodological questions that are examined in some detail in P.A. Consultants' 1987 review.
25, His salary at this time was ￡1,000, and upon leaving the service he received a pension of ￡600 p.a.
26, Every morning Weinstein would announce various good deeds over the p.a. system and she solicited prizes form local merchants and restaurants.