English example sentences with "percent"

More than 90 percent of visits to a web page are from search engines.
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Six percent home loans represent the industry average now.
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Prices have risen by 50 percent during the past ten years.
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The yen appreciated 10 percent against the dollar.
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The office for disease control reported a 10 percent spread.
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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.
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Only 40 percent of students go on to university.
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Hence 50 percent of the muscle can give way to fat.
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It's OK now. Don't worry. You can depend on me one hundred percent.
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The bus fares have been raised by 20 percent.
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Yet today only about 15 percent of American families follow this pattern.
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The old woman lends money at the rate of three percent.
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The company laid off twenty percent of its work force; therefore, expenses decreased.
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Those 4 degrees meant that 30 percent of the land area of the world was covered in ice.
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Not more than 40 percent of students go on university.
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At most 40 percent of students go on to university.
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If you buy this, I will give you a fifteen percent discount.
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These garments are made of 100 percent wool.
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This deposit bears three percent interest.
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The price of this car is discounted fifteen percent.
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Only 16 percent of the teachers of this school are female.
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Apparently there's a cancellation charge of 30 percent.
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Everything at that store is 10 percent off the regular price.
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More than 40 percent of the students go to university.
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No less than 40 percent of students go on to university.
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It has been announced that railway fares will be raised by 10 percent starting on the first of March.
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If you agree to buy 3000 of them, we'll give you a 3 percent discount.
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Prices have been reduced by 20 to 40 percent.
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By 2030, twenty-one percent of its population will be over sixty-five.
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Tuition will be raised by nearly ten percent as of April 1, 2001.
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Despite a shortage of steel, industrial output has increased by five percent.
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Nearly 80 percent of the land is mountains.
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In the current slump, economic growth has fallen to zero percent.
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Our surplus has swelled by nearly ten percent in this quarter.
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Today only 10 percent is covered.
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Four percent inflation is forecast for this year.
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Profit on computers for the previous year was nearly ten percent higher than the current year.

My investments earn about 10 percent a year.

I'm not one hundred percent wrong.

I bought this racket at a 20 percent discount.

I paid fifty percent down for the car.

My income has gone down by 10 percent.

More than 70 percent of the inhabitants are in favor of the program.

The Commerce Department reports retail sales rose seven-tenths of 1 percent last month mainly thanks to strong auto sales.

Not less than 40 percent of students go on to university.

At least 49 percent of students go on to university.

The consumption tax is now 5 percent in Japan.

When people meet, first impressions determine more than 50 percent of whatever happens next.

Eighty percent of all information on computers around the world is in English.

Each year the world's population increases on average by two percent.

I estimate the production costs to be 36 percent of the budget.

The tropical rainforests, located in a narrow region near the equator, are disappearing so fast that by the year 2000 eighty percent of them may be gone.

The union is pressing for a ten-percent pay hike.

Those who choose to retire can do so as early as sixty-two, although starting to draw their Social Security distributions at that age would mean that the payments would be reduced by twenty percent.

Subway fares will be raised by nearly ten percent as of April 1, 2001.

We'll allow a 5 percent discount off list prices.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

In the southern region, sales were up 47 percent.

The amount of carbon dioxide has increased by 10 percent.

About 50 percent of the firms in Japan have acknowledged the necessity of giving their workers longer holidays, and think summer holidays are needed to give their workers both mental and physical refreshment.

Sixty percent of Japanese adult males drink alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.

His salary was increased by ten percent.

Over ten percent of them can do the work.

They make up about 12.5 percent of the total population.

They obtained a yield of 8 percent on their investment.

She paid seven percent interest on the loan.

She has a 10 percent interest in the company.

The price of rice rose by more than three percent.

The price of rice rose by three percent.

Imported cars account for less than eight percent.

Land covers about 30 percent of the surface of the earth.

"It'll be a 'fox's wedding'." "Huh?" "There's an eighty-one percent chance of sun today with sun showers in a few places."

Forty percent of the workforce are white-collar workers, most of whom have some of the most tedious and idiotic jobs ever concocted.

According to a Cornell University study, unattractive defendants are 22 percent more likely to be convicted than good-looking ones.

Only 2.1 percent of the music albums released in 2009 sold 5,000 copies or more.

If you agree to buy 3,000 of them, we'll give you a 3 percent discount.

He balked at the suggestion that he give ten percent of his income to charity.

More than 40 percent of students go on to university.

Eighty percent of life is showing up.

Experts say only about 15 percent of happiness comes from income, assets and other financial factors.

As much as 90 percent of happiness comes from elements such as attitude, life control and relationships.

U.S. researchers assembled carbon nanotubes to create the world's blackest substance, able to absorb over 99 percent of light that hits it.

The new E10 gas contains ten percent bioethanol.

Hoover won fifty-eight percent of the votes.

Farm prices had fallen fifty-five percent.

Some of the tariffs were as high as sixty percent.

Accuracy and finish will become more important than high rates of metal removal for 95 percent of all machining operations.

A mortgage rate of six percent is becoming the current industry average.

The result placed him amongst the top one percent nationally.

The blood alcohol limit for drunken driving is .08 percent in Texas.

Tom sells T-shirts at a 30 percent discount.

Tom graduated in the top ten percent of his class.

Tom bought a computer at thirty percent off the list price.

Tom expected at least a ten percent return on his investment.

Seventy percent of people in the UK cannot speak a second language.

Employers expect their employees to give 110 percent.

The chance of that happening is less than a thousandth of a percent.

I'm not one hundred percent convinced of that.

I'm not one hundred percent convinced that's true.

There's an eighty to ninety percent chance that Jane will come.