He said the Welsh Risk Pool budget was agreed at the beginning of each financial year based on forecasts of how many claims are likely to settle in-year and their potential value.

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Tobacco manufacturers are forced to pay states based on a percentage of how many cigarettes are shipped each year.

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The study was conducted from February to May of this year, and cars were scored based on how many problems were reported per 100 vehicles.

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Indeed, how many financial success stories are based on depictions of households who have LESS this year than last?

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Many net-price calculators are based on data from the 2010-11 academic year, and omit data from students who don't receive grants, skewing the estimates lower.

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See her as an opportunity to make discrimination impossible because there are too many women up for promotion or partnership or shareholder status this year to ding them based on gender alone.

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Last year, the DOE announced it would tighten regulations barring recruiters from getting paid based on how many students they sign up.

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If you mine the newspaper archives for last year, or the year before (well, not exactly, you need for Chinese New Year, which being based on a lunar calendar is a movable feast) you will see many a story about how factories were desperately short of the labour they needed in the big Chinese manufacturing towns.

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