Synonym: pct, per centum, percentage. Similar words: per cent, percentage, fierce, coerce, pierce, perceive, commerce, perceived. Meaning: [pər'sent /pə'-] n. a proportion multiplied by 100.
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91) It's under 7 percent only because statistics don't count the people who aren't qualified to be in the work force.
92) 40 percent of patients was treated within three hours of the onset of symptoms.
93) A conflagration in 1947 reduced 90 percent of the houses to ashes.
94) The company has failed to achieve last year's sales projections by thirty percent.
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95) The Russian leader won a whopping 89.9 percent yes vote.
96) Ninety percent of the projected missiles will hit their target.
97) The writer gets a ten percent royalty on each copy of his book.
98) They see gains of 5 to 10 percent this spring.
99) Anything on top of eight percent profit is just gravy for the industry.
100) 75 percent of chief executives come from inside the company.
101) George W. Bush carried the state with 56 percent of the vote.
102) Last year, economic growth tailed off to below four percent.
103) Doctors were disturbed that less than 30 percent of the patients were women.
104) The Bridgeport Common Council voted 9:8 for a five percent tax increase.
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106) The workers, in cooperation with the management , have increased output by 10 percent.
107) The output value in the first quarter was 10 percent over the same period of last year.
108) All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at three percent.
109) Eighty percent of the vote was the threshold for approval of the plan.
110) Motorways actually cover less than 0.1 percent of the countryside.
111) Sixty percent of voters said they would willingly pay higher taxes for better health care.
112) Some of the most efficient refrigerators consume 70 percent less electricity than traditional models.
113) Violent crime has increased by 10 percent since last year.
114) The new tax has sliced annual bonuses by 30 percent.
115) Eleven percent of households were disconnected for non-payment of bills.
116) Lewis estimates that 40 to 80 percent of dentists actually autoclave their instruments as they should.
117) Company car drivers will pay between ten and twenty five percent, less tax.
118) Germany's rate has also risen sharply, up from 3 percent to 4.5 percent.
119) At the time, the unemployment rate was touching 10 percent and rising.
120) The US government says that this year's corn crop should be about 8 percent more than last year.
More similar words: per cent, percentage, fierce, coerce, pierce, perceive, commerce, perceived, perception, intercede, intercept, perceptible, apperception, intercessor, larcenous, Cent., scent, enforcement, centre, ascent, decent, accent, center, recent, nascent, descent, central, century, adjacent, indecent.