Example sentences for: percent

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

  • There are two ways the present value of future earnings might have increased by 40 or 50 percent during a period when the economy's general productive capacity increased by only 4 percent.

  • ) The researchers calculate that ultimately unnecessary follow-up tests add 33 percent to the cost of breast cancer screening.

  • The paper reports that one Texas construction company has hired about 150 ex-offenders since 1992, with approximately 85 percent of those working out.

  • If we had come up with a number like 10 percent rather than 150 percent, it would have been far easier to maintain a belief that employers discriminate.

  • These polls suggest a clear majority of Americans want Clinton to remain in office--but USAT 's finds that 50 percent would favor impeachment if it could be proved that Clinton lied to the grand jury.


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