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percentage

A percentage of something is the amount as a fraction of 100. The second school has a much higher percentage of girls (62%).

percentage

a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred) (= share) assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group he wanted his share in cash

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Simple sentences

What percentage of illnesses are associated with inadequate diets?
A very small percentage of individuals may experience epileptic seizures when exposed to certain light patterns or flashing lights.
In many countries, the poor pay more taxes as a percentage of their income than the rich.
What percentage of our bodies is water?
What percentage of the American population lives near the coast?
What percentage of my diet should be insects?
What percentage of the people speak three languages?
The high percentage of oxygen makes humans feel energized and alive.
The high percentage of oxygen allows insects to grow to frightful sizes.
A large percentage of bottled water is actually bottled tap water.
People born in February get to spend a higher percentage of the month celebrating their birthdays than those born in other months.
What percentage of marriages end in divorce?

Movie subtitles

I know. I'm gonna cut you in on a percentage.
Full board for 60 to 150 crowns, percentage and spa tax included.
Tell me, would it help your percentage any if I bought you a drink?
You know how it is: more drinks, more percentage.
Percentage is with the house.
Sorry, the percentage is against you.
Just 26 years experience all the percentage there is, and this hunk of concrete in my stomach.
No, there wouldn't be much percentage in that though, would there, Nulty?
You wouldn't want a small percentage of the profits.
Of course, our profit will vary. The percentage of cockerels is a vital factor in determining the cost of each pullet.
The percentage is on your side.
The percentage is better.
This mathematician, Dr. Balt, proved that the percentage possibility of lightning striking twice in the same place is exactly the same as it striking anywhere else.
What's the percentage in singing' for a bunch of cons?
I'm gonna cut you in on a percentage.
You know the percentage of boys who survive institutions.
Percentage is with the house. Pretty hard to beat.
Just 26 years experience. all the percentage there is, and this hunk cf concrete in my stomach.
You mean like a percentage?
I could offer you a fixed salary, plus a percentage.
Never mix marriage with gambling. The percentage is against you.
His percentage will be safe.
The kid played a percentage, it worked and we're here.
The percentage is gonna catch up with the weatherman one of these days.
Be the first thing she ever owned a percentage of.
Only a small percentage survives.
Let's be honest, you have to earn your percentage.
You might be able to get the captain to do that for you for a percentage of the profits.
No, this is my percentage.
Will we get the regular percentage?
I'll handle the entire transaction. Get rid of the letters, take all the risk, for a small percentage.
It's a percentage paid on sales.
It's a percentage on sales.
Just 26 years experience. all the percentage there is, and this hunk of concrete in my stomach.
No, there wouldn't be much percentage in that, would there?
Yes, but we would have to give them a cut. - A small percentage.
No, not percentage.
Are you counting on your paper or your knife to cut his percentage?
The deadly organisms were there. There was no protection against them, and yet a small percentage of people lived on, as we have lived, with the rest of the world of men dropping dead around them.
What is the percentage for a few dollars to cut off our nose and bite our face?
What fun! Let's be honest, you have to earn your percentage.

News and current affairs

Yet its per capita CO2 emissions have fallen by less than half of the reduction achieved in the US - even in percentage terms, the US is now doing better.
And, with tighter labor-force attachment on the part of those who have jobs, the unemployment rate thereafter would likely be about 0.1 percentage points lower in the indefinite future.
That six-percentage-point difference in anticipated real yield is a measure of bond investors' extraordinary and irrational panic.
Over the last 160 years, the GVA of finance has grown by two percentage points a year faster than that of the economy as a whole.
The Iraq War proved costly to American soft power, with the US losing about 30 percentage points of attractiveness on average in Europe, including in countries like Britain, Spain, and Italy, whose governments supported the war.
For example, federal spending relative to GDP fell by five percentage points from the mid-1980's to the late 1990's in the US, and by an even larger margin in recent decades in Canada - that is, through periods of strong economic growth.
Lahart cites the conclusion of New York University's Thomas Philippon that today's US financial sector is outsized by two percentage points of GDP.
As each year passes, China's markets expand worldwide, and its domestic market comes to represent a greater percentage of its own GDP.
But CACs may not resolve the problem entirely, because a vote would be required for each separate bond issue, and a holdout position could be achieved by buying up the blocking percentage of a small issue.
The average high-debt episodes since 1800 last 23 years and are associated with a growth rate more than one percentage point below the rate typical for periods of lower debt levels.
Those with very high investment rates, mostly in East Asia, grew faster than those with lower investment rates; but, overall, catch-up growth probably has been adding 2-4 percentage points to many emerging and developing countries' annual growth rates.
There is more: state and local budget-cutting has slowed America's pace of investment in human capital and infrastructure, adding a third percentage point to the downward shift in the country's long-term growth trajectory.
When medical expenses constituted only a small percentage of income, as was typically the case 50 years ago, an egalitarian approach to healthcare was a small extravagance.
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, confounding those who had forecast his political demise, re-emerged at the head of a populist-rightist coalition that ended up only 0.3 percentage points away from winning.
So we invested in education and science, and today we have the world's highest percentage of scientists and patents per capita.
From 1993 to 1998, the US created millions of jobs, which raised the employment rate by 5.4 percentage points.
Only a few percentage points of the Israeli GNP come from agriculture today; as a result, its economy requires less water than it once did.
But the recent speculative bubbles have in effect boosted the percentage of land value in home value.
Until that investment shortfall is made up, the missing capital will serve to depress the level of real GDP in the US by two full percentage points.
Every percentage-point fall in growth has direct social consequences, whether on nutrition levels, infant mortality, or school attendance.
Under the worst-case outcome of a complete disruption to the Japanese economy, the direct repercussions on the United States and Chinese economies would be small - shaving no more than a few tenths of a percentage point off their annual growth rates.
This seems to be why, although it has only a small lead of 2-4 percentage points in the polls, the center-left Labour Party has had the best of the campaign.
The US has complained about China's current-account (trade) surpluses; but, as a percentage of GDP, Germany's surplus is even greater.
Indeed, these estimates are roughly half a percentage point lower than those issued only last autumn.
As a result, the percentage of dropouts is rising at an alarming rate.
But spending by the central government is such a small percentage of the country's total GDP that policymakers have a lot of room for maneuver if intervention becomes necessary in these areas.
Since these are the fastest-growing large economies, the Bank's revision has clipped half a percentage point off world growth over the last five years, according to the IMF.
Second, China's central bank still controls interest rates by enforcing a roughly three-percentage-point spread between deposit rates and lending rates.

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