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Example sentences for: cent

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For purposes of this discussion, we will adopt a middling estimate of 60 per cent heritability."
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The big vote for democracy in Hong Kong Sunday was welcomed by the South China Morning Post, although the paper expressed concern in an editorial Monday that the high voter turnout, despite torrential rain, might have been at least partly due to "the offer by the retail chain, Giordano, of a 40 per cent discount to anyone who took along the commemorative card to show they had voted."
Among his irreverent made-for-TV stunts: driving a pink "Sodomobile" filled with gays and lesbians through states that ban sodomy, and presenting an executive with a giant 80-cent check to pay for an hour of a Mexican employee's labor.
Alongside these four most common elements--probably 99 per cent of all atoms in organic molecules are either carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, or nitrogen--we should consider some of the elements without which our standard of living would be impossible: the base and precious metals.