Sentence examples for cent from high-quality English sources.

• Now those figures are 43 per cent and 37 per cent respectively.

• A Brazil-Spain final also remains the most likely at 14 per cent, and the odds of a first-time winner have increased slightly from 27 per cent to 30 per cent.

• These are closely followed by the expected confectionery (3.5 per cent), biscuits (3.5 per cent), pasties, buns and cakes (3.3 per cent) and industrial chips (2.8 per cent).

• The following calculation has been made, and the following proportion established: Loss of men: at Austerlitz, French, fourteen per cent; Russians, thirty per cent; Austrians, forty-four per cent.

• Wisconsin (42 per cent), Minnesota (37 per cent) and Massachusetts (35 per cent) ranked the three highest out of the 50 states.

• It was ahead of Finland (on 38.7 per cent), Latvia (37.2 per cent), Austria (33.5 per cent) and Denmark (32.2 per cent).

• Highest levels of opposition were recorded in the City of London (33 per cent), Pembrokeshire and Swansea (both 24 per cent) and West Yorkshire (18 per cent).

• After 13 months, the combined rectal chlamydia and gonorrhoea rate fell from 27 per cent to 5 per cent while syphilis dropped from 8 per cent to 5 per cent.

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• Microsoft’s numbers have largely remained the same: median is down from 8.4 per cent to 7.9 per cent and the median difference in bonus pay has gone up from 11.4 per cent to 13 per cent.

• Tesco still has a 27.5 per cent share of the UK grocery market by spend – making it the leader – followed by Sainsbury’s at 14.9 per cent, Asda at 13.8 per cent and Morrison at 9.9 per cent.

• In Austen’s day, the top ten per cent of households in Britain owned eighty-five per cent of the national wealth, and the top one per cent, the Darcys and the Rushworths, owned fifty-five per cent.

• A total of 42.7 per cent said they would support it, 19.5 per cent “strongly” and 23.2 per cent “somewhat”, meanwhile 34.6 per cent were against the idea, 23.2 per cent strongly and 11.4 per cent somewhat.

• Some 35 per cent in Greater Manchester said they would “support”, 9 per cent “oppose” and 7 per cent “strong oppose” them, while the figures for West Yorkshire were 32 per cent “support”, 8 per cent “oppose” and 10 per cent “strongly oppose”.

• Blacks have asthma at a rate of 9.2 per cent, compared with eight per cent of whites; 16.8 per cent of Blacks have diabetes, compared with ten per cent of whites (Reggie Smith has diabetes); 40.3 per cent have hypertension compared with 27.8 per cent of whites.

• The proportion reporting sex 10 times or more in the past month increased between the first two surveys (from 18.4 per cent to 20.6 per cent in women and from 19.9 per cent to 20.2 per cent in men), but fell in the final survey to 13.2 per cent in woman and 14.4 per cent in men.

• Overall, the proportion reporting no sex in the past month fell between the first and second surveys (from 28.5 per cent to 23 per cent in women and from 30.9 per cent to 26 per cent in men) but increased significantly in the final 2012 survey (to 29.3 per cent in women and 29.2 per cent in men).

cent sentence examples

• The 2001 tax reform reduced the top rate of income tax from 39.6 per cent to 38.6 per cent, the second rate from 36 per cent to 35 per cent, the third rate from 31 per cent to 30 per cent, and the fourth rate from 28 per cent to 27 per cent, with more cuts scheduled for later years.

• Trade is the most important area of negotiations economically, but the poll suggested 74 per cent of the public are in the dark about what the Government is trying to achieve (”not very” clear 36 per cent, “not at all”, 38 per cent), while just 15 per cent thought it is clear (”very”, three per cent, somewhat, 12 per cent).

• The increased cancer risk was seen in breast (3.4 per cent of flight crew compared to 2.3 per cent in the general population), cervical (1.0 per cent compared to 0.70 per cent), gastrointestinal (0.47 per cent compared to 0.27 per cent ), and thyroid (0.67 per cent compared to 0.56 per cent).

• According to the new data, the 16.2 per cent figure for BAME ethnicity breaks down as Indian 3.0 per cent, Pakistani 2.1 per cent, Bangladeshi 0.6 per cent, any other Asian background 1.6 per cent, Caribbean 2.9 per cent, African 1.9 per cent, any other black background 0.9 per cent, Chinese 0.4 per cent and any other ethnic group 2.8 per cent.