How to Use gross national product in a Sentence
gross national product
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The limit gets adjusted every year, based on the change in gross national product.
—Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2020
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By 1968, Japan was rich, second only to the United States in gross national product, and one of the most polluted countries on earth.
—New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
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Economic loss could rise to $7 billion, more than half of the country's gross national product.
—Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2019
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Economic loss could rise to $7 billion, more than half of the country’s gross national product.
—Andrea Sachs, Houston Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2019
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The economy has been in recession for 12 years; gross national product has fallen by 15% in that time.
—The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
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About 40 percent of Fiji's gross national product (GNP) comes from the tourism industry.
—Lilit Marcus, CNN, 14 Sep. 2021
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The heavyweights might demand to use oxygen between rounds, and Alvarez might refuse to fight unless he is made king of Mexico, with a percentage of the country’s gross national product.
—Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2020
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That amounted to 4% of Mexico’s gross national product.
—Wendy Fry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021
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The conflict was costly, about $32 billion, or about half of that era’s gross national product, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.
—USA Today, 22 May 2020
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The new fiscal plan comes as island officials estimate its gross national product will contract deeply in the year ending in June, officials told reporters today in San Juan.
—Bloomberg.com, 25 Jan. 2018
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In addition, military spending as a percentage of gross national product is also in a decline.
—The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2018
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In search of better tools to manage the economy, the federal government commissioned economists in the 1930s to calculate gross national product.
—Greg Ip, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2017
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The study discusses three policy scenarios that could lower CO2-related pollutants and their costs as a fraction of China's gross national product.
—John Fialka, Scientific American, 26 July 2019
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The gas subsidies, which amount to nearly 2 percent of the country’s gross national product, are starving other sectors of the economy, according to Andrés Albuja, an economic analyst.
—New York Times, 2 July 2022
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The country’s hotels, resorts, museums, restaurants, galleries and countless other destinations are estimated to produce more than 15 percent of the gross national product.
—Julia Moskin, New York Times, 4 June 2019
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Indeed, the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness estimates corruption eats away 2 to 10 percent of gross national product and reduces foreign investment by 5 percent a year.
—The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2018
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