Example sentences for: percent

How can you use “percent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A library with the maximum allowable e-rate subsidy of 90 percent would still find itself paying a monthly Internet bill of $186.

  • 7. "Drug maker Eli Lilly saw its profits rise 15 percent in the most recent quarter, meeting estimates, but its shares fell nonetheless when it announced that Prozac sales were down significantly.

  • The other major finding: far more Americans practice buy-and-hold investing than all the headlines about day traders would suggest, with 55 percent of investors not making a single trade last year.

  • An accompanying chart shows that 30 percent of fourth- and eighth-graders met the goals panel's performance standard in reading in 1996, only one statistically insignificant percentage point greater than in 1992; for 12 th -graders, the 36 percent who met the performance standard was four percentage points less than in 1992.

  • FFC reported that, historically, 30 to 50 percent of all construction change orders result from errors in the design documents directly related to improper interfaces between design disciplines (civil, structural, architectural, electrical, and mechanical).


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