The down payment represented a similar burden in both instances - about 30 percent of annual income.

The "inappropriate payments represent only a tiny fraction" of all spending, he said.

Although the liability will be settled over a number of years, the future payments represent a contingent loss at the balance sheet date.

The payment represented legal fees the commission had spent to defend the civil charges.

The payments represented 5 d per £1 that the prize agents had owed.

Couch's lawyer Brian Henry said the payment represented only $10,000 a year for 30 years.

The 1968 payment represented 29 percent of the fund's value.

The payment represents 44% of the 2008 federal government revenue.

The payments represent 7 percent of its overall revenue.

That payment represents slightly less than 2 percent of Green Point's $5.6 billion in deposits.