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1942 J. R. Hicks Social Framework xv. 160 The cost-of-living index..covers a large part of the field which would be covered by the ideal index which we should desire to have for measuring the national income in real terms.

1964 J. Gould & W. L. Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 454/1 If a series of national product estimates for several years is divided by a price index, each year's national product being divided by the price index for that year, the resulting series is known as deflated or real national product, or national product in real terms.

1976 Canadian (Toronto) 1 May 8/3 NDP leader David Lewis..calculated that Canadian business receives about as much in federal subsidies as it pays in federal income tax—and thus contributes practically nothing, in real terms, to running the government.

1981 Sunday Times 26 Apr. 13/4 Despite an urgent maintenance and restoration programme, it [sc. the National Trust] is spending less in real terms on looking after its property than it was two years ago.

2002 C. Llewellyn-Smith Pop Life vii. 151 Even though unmarried people under the age of twenty-five were included in this definition of teenagers, in real terms this was twice the pre-war figure.