Examples of 'percent' in a sentence

Meaning of "percent"

percent (noun) - a proportion or ratio that represents a part out of 100. Percentages are commonly used in mathematics, statistics, and everyday life to express relative values, comparisons, and changes. For example, if 30 out of 100 students passed a test, the passing rate would be 30 percent
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  • For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion).
  • A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).
  • One part per hundred; one percent.
  • The percent sign, %.

How to use "percent" in a sentence

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One hundred percent successful delivery rate.
Management wants us to cut another ten percent.
I will give you ten percent of my winnings.
Forty percent of water consumed is hot water.
The levy is typically five percent of payments.
Percent for a relative humidity measuring device.
You lost five percent of your brain.
Ten percent of all births are to single women.
Coal generation declined to almost zero percent.
Average percent of annual labour costs paid by.
Contribution to the violent crime rate percent.
Shows percent of individuals who selected position.
I will probably just take five percent.
Eight percent of the catchment area was paved.
Contribution to total household emissions kilotonnes percent.

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Eighty percent of all dust is human skin.
I will give you another five percent.
Five percent goes to your favorite charity.
The intellectual animal is ninetyseven percent subconscious.
Some reasonable percent reduction in mortality should be set.
To program for another percent key.
Thirty percent of participants were involved either as teachers or as students.
I made three percent last month.
Percent of respondents reported problems in accessing maternity services.
They give us three percent of the purchase price.
Percent of correcting a congenital anomaly is knowing your embryology.
You only own ten percent of the club.
Seven percent neither worked nor attended school.
But there is still a ten percent chance it could be.
Twenty percent of hydrops is caused by parvo.
I would say about a hundred percent.
Twentythree percent of them worked full or part time.
Let us get to the large plus ten percent.
Twenty percent across the board.
Relative importances are expenditures as a percent of total.
Percent of revenues was from overseas work.
Upbound downbound total percent of total percent of total.
Percent calculation for item entries.
Total withdrawal as percent of renewable resource.
Percent calculation for the subtotal.
All concentrations are in percent by weight unless ingredient is a gas.
Percent of the lipstick is pure lead.
A liter of five percent dextrose and normal saline.
Percent of everything you have taken.
I will give you ten percent of my divorce settlement.
Percent of what you do not have.
I have a six percent success rate with that.
Percent of the girls have anemia.
One hundred percent success rate.
Percent of workers who become ill are likely to die.

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