percentage

[pərˈsentɪdʒ]

Definition:
1. A proportion multiplied by 100.
2. Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group.

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Use 'percentage' in a sentence:

1. Even when a tiny number grows by a large percentage terms, it is often still tiny.
2. In other words, communities with high levels of per-capita income growth, high percentages of two-parent families, and high local government spending — which may stand for good schools — are the most likely to help poor children relive Horatio Alger5s rags-to-riches story.
3. The percentage of people living in cities is much higher than the percentage working in industry.
4. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon recently expressed his willingness to do so, noting that banks and merchants have spent the past decade suing each other over interchange fees — the percentage of the transaction price they keep — rather than deal with the growing hacking problem.
5. Even that percentage is likely inflated by men thrust into their caretaker role by a downsizing.
6. In a considerable percentage of cases of debt-induced financial stress, credit cards and loans will be a central element.
7. Campaigners point out that a high percentage of the prison population is left-handed.
8. What percentage of the world's tea exports go to Britain?
9. He gets a percentage for every car sold.
10. The percentage increase in reported crime in England and Wales this year is the highest since the war.
11. This pore space is known as porosity and is expressed as a percentage of the total rock volume.
12. The percentage of retirement-age people in the labor force has doubled over the past three decades.
13. Schools let in a higher percentage of early-decision applicants, which arguably means that you have a better chance of getting in.
14. The percentage of girls in engineering has increased substantially.
15. It is expressed as a percentage.
16. The inhabitants turned to wild cereal grasses instead, collecting them by the thousands, while the percentage of nuts in the diet fell.
17. The percentage increase in reported crime this year is the highest since the war.
18. The results were analysed in percentage terms.
19. Fees are charged at a flat rate, rather than on a percentage basis.
20. Interest rates increased by five percentage points.
21. The percentage of households with an annual income of more than $40,000 is higher in Merton county than in any other county.
22. The percentage of households with an annual income of $60,000 or more is highest in Sommer county.
23. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is "much lower" than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years ( 81 percent).
24. After all, the percentage of Americans who say a college degree is "very important" has fallen drastically in the last 5-6 years.
25. Even when a tiny number grows by large percentage terms, it is often still tiny.
26. Female participation on corporate boards may not currently mirror the percentage of women in the general population, but so what?
27. A plague on you and your damned percentages!
28. Whisky contains a large percentage of alcohol.
29. Data were analyzed statistically with either percentage rate or χ 2 test.
30. There's a higher percentage of girl students in this class.
31. The percentage of married women who have part-time jobs is about 75 percent.
32. Statistical results were expressed as percentage and quantitative data.
33. Taken as a percentage of the whole, the mouth has to be a fairly minor body part.
34. A low percentage of the population was illiterate.
35. An extraordinarily high percentage of allied casualties were caused by friendly fire.
36. Moreover, the percentage of assessed value that was paid as property taxes to the city did not change during this period.
37. Still, Jones represents a small percentage of first-generation students who are able to gain entry into more elite universities, which are often known for robust financial aid packages and remarkably high graduation rates for first-generation students.
38. Explicit corporate values, for example, produced a greater percentage of decisions that were stressful due to value contention.
39. All this was used to calculate what percentage of time people spent in an unpleasant state.
40. Only a few vegetable-origin foods have such a high percentage of protein.
41. The students had a grasp of decimals, percentages and fractions.
42. That's the highest percentage of an exclusive economic zone devoted to marine conservation by any country in the world.
43. The percentage of false negatives generated by the cancer test is of great concern.
44. Since then, however, the percentage of workers at these plants who were newly diagnosed with nerve damage has not dropped significantly.
45. The figure is expressed as a percentage.
46. The party's share of the vote fell by ten percentage points.
47. What percentage of eligible voters cast their ballots ?
48. What percentage of eligible voters cast their ballots?
49. The margin of error was plus or minus three percentage points.
50. He has a clause in his contract which entitles him to a percentage of the profits.
51. A large percentage of the population is illiterate.
52. A large percentage of these forces had been flattened by the assault.
53. A surface's albedo is the percentage of incoming solar energy, sunlight, that's reflected off that surface back into space.