per annum

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Borrowed from Late Latin per annum, English from the 16th century.

In a year. Salt fish for dinner twice every week, or 104 times per annum, is abominable.
For a year. Areas of no more than ten acres of crown land may be granted as bee-arms on annual licenses, the rent being one shilling an acre per annum.