By a specified amount in every thousand.
foreign holidays account for 30 per mille of the cost of living
Example sentencesExamples
- All data are reported as per mil deviation from the V-PDB international standard.
- Discrepancies of several per mil appear to be possible.
- The river water is saline below 0.7 per mille, while the water in the Aral Sea was brackish with salinity at approximately 9 per mille.
- There we go, you see, we have a grid there, which gives you your count in millions per mil.
- The delta 13 C values averaged 11.0 per mil and the delta 15 N values averaged 7.5 per mil.