Sentence examples for gross contributions from inspiring English sources

Return on gross contributions: 7%.

But if it had not, it would have been unique since Britain's gross contributions to the EU budget have automatically benefited from the rebate.

The row over whether the bill had actually been reduced continued after a meeting of European finance ministers in Brussels, when Osborne factored in Britain's automatic rebate on gross contributions to the EU budget – which have operated since 1980 – to argue that he had succeeded in halving the bill.

The UK's gross contribution to the EU is £19.23bn.

The UK's gross contribution without factoring in its rebate or payments from EU institutions was about £16.9bn, which still only amounted to £325m a week.

According to the U.K. Statistics Authority, Britain owed a gross contribution to the European Union of 19.1 billion pounds, or about $28 billion, in 2014.

That figure is derived from the UK's gross contribution of £19.1bn in 2014 and does not take into account Britain's rebate or other receipts from the EU.

In the past, Dominic Cummings, Vote Leave's campaign director, has argued that £350m a week was actually an understatement because the UK's gross contribution to the EU in 2014 was equivalent to £367m a week.

But Soames says this marks the UK's gross contribution, whereas the figure dips to £9bn, according to Treasury figures, once the UK rebate and other EU grants are taken off.

But the institute's report pointed out that this figure excluded money sent back to London under a rebate plan, and that it was also based on Britain's gross contribution and did not take account of European Union spending in Britain, for example to support farmers.

With a gross contribution to the EU of £19 billion and a net deficit on trade in goods and services with the EU of £28 billion in 2011, the UK would hardly be in a weak negotiating position.To minimise disruption, if it came to it, it would be in everyone's interests to agree a new inter-governmental basis for Britain to remain in a customs union with the EU and retain free movement of goods.