percent|percents in English

noun

[per·cent || pər'sent /pə'-]

one part of a hundred

Use "percent|percents" in a sentence

1. First, subtract the markdown percentage from 100 percent, and you get 75 percent (100 percent − 25 percent = 75 percent).

2. Brown polled 23 percent, Harkin 14 percent, Tsongas 12 percent, and a further 22 percent of votes were uncommitted.

3. In 1985 cereals covered 80.6 percent of sown areas, fodder crops 17.7 percent, potatoes 1.3 percent, and vegetables 0.4 percent.

4. 60 percent, 70 percent, 80 percent, 90, and almost 100 percent, as we have today in the wealthiest and healthiest countries.

5. Wells Fargo rose 31 percent, Citigroup rose 19 percent, Bank of America rose 13 percent.

6. Defence spending for the same years was 7 percent, 2 percent and 2 percent respectively.

7. Remittances account for 10 percent of GDP in the Philippines, 7 percent in Vietnam, 5 percent in Myanmar, and 3 percent in Cambodia.

8. The breakdown for violent deaths was: Suicide —50 percent, homicide— 30 percent, and war —20 percent.

9. Of the combined total, 70 percent was from Broilers, 19 percent from eggs, 11 percent from turkeys, and less than 1 percent from chickens.

10. THE Alawite SECT -- Sunnis Muslims make up 74 percent of Syria’s 22 million population, Alawites 12 percent, Christians 10 percent and Druze 3 percent

11. In Hong Kong it is 7.9 percent, in Taiwan 7.4 percent, and in Japan only 1.2 percent.

12. Twenty percent.

13. It is followed by manufacturing (14.3 percent); real estate, renting and business activities (12.4 percent); transport and communications (11.6 percent); and financial intermediation (11.1 percent).

14. Twelve percent.

15. Four isotopes occur in nature: stable Cerium-140 (88.45 percent) and radioactive Cerium-142 (11.11 percent), Cerium-138 (0.25 percent), and Cerium-136 (0.19 percent).

16. Bosniaks accounted for 81.3 percent of those civilian deaths, compared to Serbs 10.9 percent and Croats 6.5 percent

17. State farms accounted for 19.1 percent of pig raising; other state organizations, for 34.2 percent; agricultural cooperatives, for 12.5 percent; and individual cooperative members, for 34.2 percent.

18. In France the figure is 43 percent; Denmark, 45 percent; and Sweden, 55 percent. —INSTITUTO DE POLÍTICA FAMILIAR, SPAIN.

19. So the move from two percent to six percent isn't just a four percent increase in the growth rate.

20. Mozambique reported a 17-percent increase, Lithuania a 29-percent increase.

21. 72 percent of tourism's CO2 emissions come from transportation, 24 percent from accommodations, and 4 percent from local activities.

22. By 2010 ethnic minorities accounted for 65 percent (up from 53 percent in 2006) of the poorest 10 percent.

23. 1 Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. 

24. Infinity percent, actually.

25. Sixty- two percent.