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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151) Banks have been charging 25 percent and above for unsecured loans.
152) It was a disappointing result for the Greens who polled three percent.
153) Drunk driving fatalities have declined more than 10 percent over the past 10 years.
154) This month's amount of deposits in the bank exceeds last month's by fifteen percent. Sentencedict.com
155) Your mortgage interest payments are two percent below the base rate.
156) These treatment methods enabled 80 percent of combat-fatigue-affected troops to return to duty.
157) He won a 48 percent plurality of the vote rather than an outright majority.
158) Fewer than five percent of women have their babies on their due date.
159) The Central Bank has lowered interest rates by 2 percent.
160) That will basically cover fifty...correction sixty percent of all charges.
161) Only 5 percent named the abortion issue.
162) This accounts for 90 percent of reported pollution incidents.
163) Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen
164) In contrast, accidental injuries rose only 6 percent.
165) Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison
166) In spite of accounting for only 0.2 percent of a beer's cost, this is naturally felt to be wasteful and undesirable.
167) This was found unacceptable by 57 percent, quite acceptable by 35 percent and very acceptable by 7 percent.
168) By contrast, 1 percent of Channel 4 programmes contained violence, with an average frequency of one violent act per hour.
169) In exchange, Union Jack will acquire a 3.5 percent interest in the Claymore field from Texaco.
170) Prices have risen, on average, £100 per acre with some farms making 25 percent more than the asking price.
171) Why will not the Government abolish the 20 percent. rule?
172) I believe your correspondent forgets we are a private company still in absolute control of 75 percent of it.
173) Forty-five percent of fatal road accidents involving young people are alcohol-linked, and so are drowning and deaths from accidental overdose.
174) This is a significant achievement when figures show 87 percent of those locked up re-offend.
175) When the Rent Acts were abolished in Northern Ireland in 1957, 25 percent. of the rented market was private.
176) As many as 20 percent of people over 80 may be suffering from dementia, but no accurate figures are available.
177) Buyers acquire a 50 percent stake in exchange for investing a certain amount of money in the company.
178) To get the clean price we subtract the interest that has been accruing at the rate of d percent up to that day.
179) Relative savings of only a few percent in this area can therefore mean sizeable savings in absolute terms.
180) Higher education accounts for about 13 percent of general fund expenditures.
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.