And if a store manager, or the company, wants to add new products, they have to subtract an equivalent number.
As many as 26, 000 jobs (or the equivalent number of work hours) in steel-using industries may have been lost because of the tariffs, according to the IIE.
Four current members of staff are currently working their notice before leaving the civil service this summer which will cut the "full time equivalent" number of staff to 56.8 - still more than in March 2011.
This is roughly equivalent to the number of dogs collected from the streets of the UK in 2011.
At the moment, universities can recruit an unlimited number of students who have achieved A-level grades equivalent to ABB or higher, but the number of lower achieving students they can take is capped to limit the cost to the state in the form of student loans.
Some banks might require local identification cards or the local equivalent of a Social Security number.
Under the current rules, the number of vocational equivalent courses has expanded from 15, 000 in 2004 to 575, 000 in 2010.
The change in net earnings and operating cash flows is primarily due to a 36% increase in the number of silver equivalent ounces sold, which was partially offset by a 24% decrease in the realized price per silver equivalent ounce, the company said in its quarterly statement Thursday.
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All bets--whether on red or black, or on a specific number--are equivalent on a risk-adjusted basis.
Next year, the company expects underlying production of oil and gas to grow, but estimate the total number of oil-equivalent barrels produced will drop about 150, 000 per day given asset divestitures.
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Sources tell CNN that the Justice Department last week sent out investigative demands, the civil equivalent of subpoenas, to a number of companies in the movie industry, requesting documents about distribution practices.
The number of full-time equivalent TAs has increased threefold from 79, 000 in spring 2000 to 232, 300 in November 2012, the government figures show.
Paul Sherrington, principal of Banff and Buchan College, said the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff at the institution had dropped from 237 to 220 over the past two years.
Earlier on, in response to a question by Labour's Graeme Morrice, the minister pointed out the NHS budget would increase in real terms during the lifetime of the Parliament, adding that the number of full-time equivalent clinical staff working in the NHS was higher today than in May 2010 and September 2009.
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The number of people over 65 will be equivalent to 60% of the working-age population in Europe in 2050, compared with only 40% in America.
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So if Apple sells 13M TVs, that means they will have purchased from their supply chain the equivalent display surface area of over 11 times the number of iPhones they will have shipped in 2012, or almost 4 times the number of iPads they will have shipped in 2012!!
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Once the program has been completed, these helicopters will become the airborne equivalent of a socket wrench - capable of undertaking a number of previously impossible tasks.
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The Office for National Statistics said the estimates of the number of people with second addresses used for holidays were "not equivalent to an estimate of holiday homes".
We launched a housing plan that has already contributed to a spike in the number of homeowners who are refinancing their mortgages, which is the equivalent of another tax cut for them.
When advertising a new car's efficiency, for example, it is more convincing to talk about the number of extra miles per gallon it does, rather than the equivalent percentage fall in fuel consumption.
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The number leaps another 46% for a climactic Game Seven, the baseball equivalent of the Super Bowl.
This would bring the number of Syrian refugees there close to 1.2 million - the equivalent of one-fifth of Jordan's total population.
The number of TEUs (the large containers on ships: twenty-foot equivalent units) moving through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is up 23% in May year-over-year and up 26% since the beginning of the year.
ITINs are basically the equivalent of Social Security numbers for those taxpayers who are not eligible for a Social Security number.
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Their rulers have titles or names which reflect this status - the equivalent of being called "Mr One Hundred", he says - to show the number of people below him.
The impending cuts would cause FBI furloughs equivalent in size to closing the bureau's offices in Chicago, Miami and Baltimore, slash the number of civil and criminal cases filed by federal prosecutors and delay the full use of four new prisons while taxing the ability to keep inmates and guards safe.
Ms Baillie said that since 2009, almost 4, 000 whole-time-equivalent NHS staff had left their jobs, including more than 1, 700 nurses and midwives, leaving the number of nursing and midwifery posts in Scotland's NHS at its lowest point since 2006.
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