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The consumption tax is now 5 percent in Japan.
Tom sells T-shirts at a 30 percent discount.
I'm not a hundred percent sure.
More than 90 percent of visits to a web page are from search engines.
Although rainforests make up only two percent of the earth's surface, over half the world's wild plant, animal and insect species live there.
Yet today only about 15 percent of American families follow this pattern.
The old woman lends money at the rate of three percent.
If you buy this, I will give you a fifteen percent discount.
The price of this car is discounted fifteen percent.
Only 16 percent of the teachers of this school are female.
Everything at that store is 10 percent off the regular price.
If you agree to buy 3000 of them, we'll give you a 3 percent discount.
Despite a shortage of steel, industrial output has increased by five percent.
I bought this racket at a 20 percent discount.
More than 70 percent of the inhabitants are in favor of the program.
The union is pressing for a ten-percent pay hike.
Sixty percent of Japanese adult males drink alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.
It's OK now. Don't worry. You can depend on me one hundred percent.
Not more than 40 percent of students go on university.
This deposit bears three percent interest.
It has been announced that railway fares will be raised by 10 percent starting on the first of March.
In the current slump, economic growth has fallen to zero percent.
Four percent inflation is forecast for this year.
My investments earn about 10 percent a year.
Each year the world's population increases on average by two percent.
Movie subtitles
And eighty percent of us have AIDS (Hasa Diga Eebowai!
Oh, they're 100 percent, all right.
That sparkle, that must be 1 00-percent American.
About sixty percent and I'm still not certain in some other cases.
Listen, had you said 100 percent, I would have had you escorted out as a lunatic or a charlatan.
He's got about a 15-percent metabolism with an overactive thyroid and a glandular affectation of about 3 percent.
With a 1 -percent mentality.
Honey, you look a million percent better.
Just my original agreement with Frazier: 50 percent of everything.
Kolenkhov always said art is 110 percent sweat.
Fifty percent to a so-called Grand Duchess.
One hundred percent perfect.
Listen, till now you made a 15 percent profit on 20 talers.
Your 10 percent of the show will make you a rich man.
Yes, everything in the shop is marked down 25 percent some articles even more.
It costs us 2.85, and I think we get five percent.
Phillips, I've always subscribed to the idea that the American public is 99 percent honest.
And to cinch it, I'll give him 50 percent.
And you did that on only 50 percent of the profits. for old Wilson at the colliery was holding you to a strict accounting.
Fifty percent?
I just happened to think. that Emily won't have full control of the show, only 49 percent.
Well, Miss Emily, 50 percent it is, but the colonel drives a hard bargain.
I'll guarantee you boys a straight 15 percent of the gross.
Twenty-five percent of five grand.
If we must spend another year on the quest well, sir, it will be an additional expenditure in time of only five and fifteen-seventeenths percent.
You'll either get five percent of the young lady's losses. or a hundred percent of what I planned for you before you came in.
That's not right. Ten percent is customary.
Here, 50 dollars less 20 percent.
It accounts for 34 percent of our gross intake and a higher proportion of our profits.
Mr Hoffman, take 100 percent for trying and say good night.
But you do get 5 percent of the profits.
News and current affairs
Once investors understood Argentina's predicament, they started dumping its government bonds, and the risk premium on loans to Argentina rose several percent.
Over time, the dollar will still decline, but perhaps by no more than a couple of percent per year.
In Europe, the percent of women on corporate boards remains in single digits, as is true of the top ranks of government and academia.
Ninety-five percent of its envisioned cuts never happened.
Specifically, the Commission calls for rich countries to put aside one tenth of one percent of their gross national product - or just one penny out of every ten dollars of income - on behalf of health services for the world's poor.
Those who survive will be more malnourished than ever, and the percent of children whose growth is stunted will increase from today's two thirds.
While this is not a particularly generous proportion of rich-country income (roughly one-fourth of one percent of their combined gross national products), it is a lot of money just the same.
The European Central Bank managed to relieve an incipient credit crunch through its long-term refinancing operation (LTRO), which lent over a trillion euros to eurozone banks at one percent.
The higher the education, it seems, the lower the voter participation: among those who never vote, the percent of people with higher education is twice as high as that of people without higher education.
July saw American industrial production jump by half a percent, while Intel, the big microprocessor maker, is reporting very strong growth in demand for its key products, suggesting that business investment spending is finally accelerating.
Thirty percent of this year's corn production in the United States will be burned up on America's highways.
This type of party, committed to simple liberalization and opening, rarely moves beyond the range of five to ten percent of the vote that Germany's liberal Free Democrats attracts.
Economic performance in several Latin American countries was relatively weak in this period, with Uruguay's real GDP per capita actually recording a fall by a fraction of a percent.
Fifty percent!
There were no calls for a five-percent-growth-of-kilowatt-hours rule as there were calls for a five-percent-growth-of-M2 rule.
It is difficult, but not impossible, to imagine the U.S. economy growing at a rate of 3 percent or more in the decade ahead.
The United States has been running a chronic current account deficit, which exceeded 6 percent of GDP at its peak.
Failure to achieve a satisfactory growth rate-generally defined as 8 percent per annum-could lead to political turmoil, and political turmoil in China would be disastrous for the world.
Ten percent of all deaths in that country, he recently claimed, are from euthanasia, half of which are forced upon helpless patients.
Forty-one percent of the world's population live in areas where malaria is transmitted, with 350-500 million cases each year.
But only a small percent of the breaches were the result of deliberate manipulation.
The middle-income countries had a decline of 0.7 percent per year.
Growth has exceeded several percent per year.
The combined patents coming from developing countries and transition (post-communist) economies in 1998 amount to less than 1 percent of the U.S. total patents last year.
Those elections were flawed. But only a small percent of the breaches were the result of deliberate manipulation.
Agriculture, which in the 1800's accounted for more than half of national income, has shrunk to just a few percent.