• So take the home price rise, divide it by four, and add it to the inflation index.

    FORBES: Why QE2 Inflation Is Like A Tax On Disposable Income

  • Take gross domestic product (GDP) - that's the country's entire production - and divide it by the number of workers.

    BBC: Are Greeks the hardest workers in Europe?

  • Total the number of positions in which you have made money and divide it by the total number of all positions.

    FORBES

  • For example, if your BMI is 36 - which is probably what John Prescott's is - you take the square root of that, which would be six, and divide it by 100, giving you a figure of 6%.

    BBC: Head-to-head: Fat tax

  • Syndicate members have little direct influence over how the horse is managed, but as its legal owners, they split any prize money between them, and also divide up any profits generated by selling it.

    BBC: NEWS | Business | From nags to riches

  • It would be better by far to divide Britain into nominal provinces and have all of the directly elected councillors for the metropolitan areas, other urban areas and the county councils gather together and elect from within their own ranks representatives to go to the upper house.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • If you divide individual rate by league rate, though, it comes out that he's striking out a third more hitters than average impressive, but no better than what Brett Myers did with the Philadelphia Phillies in 2005, and nothing close to what Gooden did at 19, when his K-rate was more than twice as high as the league's.

    WSJ: Why Matt Harvey Is Not Dwight Gooden

  • So it would be a mistake to take this, divide it -- to take the expenditures, divide them by the number of jobs and think you have cost per job.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • About 2, 000 children a year are diagnosed with the condition, though when you divide that by the number of GPs in the UK, it is clear that many of them could go some years without seeing a case.

    BBC: Child diabetes 'is being missed'

  • Within the rich world, the growing transatlantic growth divide has helped buoy the dollar versus the euro: it is up by more than 5% from its lows in November.

    ECONOMIST: The world economy

  • Perhaps it should have been staffed by Latinos, who cannot see a Great Divide at all: only bridges to be crossed, chances to be seized, another day's march along the road to completing the world's greatest multicultural experiment.

    ECONOMIST: A minority worth cultivating

  • Instead of closing the digital divide by generating funds in developing countries as ETNO argues, the proposals would widen it, raising prices and depressing Internet use.

    FORBES: Proposed Web Regulations Threaten Free Internet

  • As a new leader, Nick Clegg may have calculated that the quiet departure of a popular and influential party figure was rather more appealing than a distracting and divisive inquiry into his alleged wrongdoing which would divide the Lib Dems and be exploited ruthlessly by the party's enemies (as it is now).

    BBC: Sex claims - who knew what?

  • Segregation and a marked lack of assimilation by many immigrants fuels this divide, and the Dutch find themselves arguing over what it means to be Dutch.

    FORBES: The Unbearable Whiteness of Piet-ing: Dutch Santa's Blackface Elves

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