sentences:  In 2002, the company received its first ever revenue funding from Arts Council England, freeing the company from the restriction of always agreeing projects and budgets for subsidy in advance.This freedom allowed the company to spend approximately £700 on a tonne of rice, enough for each person in the UK to be given a grain.The project's simple premise that "one grain = one person" allowed for human population statistics to be represented as carefully counted/weighed piles of rice sitting on labelled sheets of white paper.