noun
definition
A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).
example
only a small percent attain the top ranks
definition
One part per hundred; one percent.
adverb
definition
For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion).
Examples of percent in a Sentence
I was a hundred percent truthful—same as always, almost.
That eighty percent went to ninety nine.
She took about eighty percent of your tips at the call center.
He said about 99 percent of the people in the world just go along and let things happen to them.
Do I detect you're not 100 percent sure the old boy drowned?
Operating at basically 5 percent efficiency, they are less than half as efficient as solar panels now on the market.
Some have questioned whether Friedman's thesis is 100 percent true, mentioning NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia as a potential exception.
On paper, they had a ninety percent chance of surviving the operation.
In Montana, where 10 percent of residents spoke German and another 10 percent were of German descent, ministers weren't allowed to preach in German to congregants who understood no English, and one town publicly burned German textbooks, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported.
Basically, he trusts me fifty percent of the time, Xander fifty percent of the time, and no one else.
Maybe that's why you were so damn quick to be willing to take less than fifty percent of the land!
Let's say I'm 99 percent, but it sure would be nice to find a body.
So today, you make $33,000 and pay 40 percent tax.
Even if you don't accept this, try to accept that war is financially disadvantageous to 99 percent of the business owners in the country and that this is new and meaningful.
Give me some reason why one percent and an eternity with you beats out the alternative.
Think about it before you make a decision — and then I'm with you one hundred percent.
She supports my seeing a psychiatrist a hundred percent.
He'd also been anonymously voted least popular by a disgruntled Guardian on their online discussion boards, and he was about 99 percent sure Jule was leading the pack on that one as his latest attempt to win some bet with Damian about their diverse leadership styles.
I bet D didn't tell you that only ten percent of Oracles ever get as far as you have.
This year the IRL is running a 90 percent methanol, 10 percent ethanol fuel blend in its cars.
I say we can improve things not by 20 or so percent, but by twenty times or more.
The original elephant seal population of about 93,000 to 110,000 animals was reduced by 70 percent as a result of these operations.
Moreover, 44 percent offered training for second trimester abortions, compared with seven percent in 1992.
The second half percent cut in rates this month in the USA vindicates that view.
During the 2007 holiday shopping season, online revenue sales increased by 22 percent.
I wasn't a hundred percent truthful when we first met in the park—at the doggy parade.
Now, there's less than a one percent chance, Fate continued.
For example, when you ignored my first summons" - Fate glared at him - "you made the deterioration of the underworld eighty percent likelier.
His plan took Wynn, Andre, the oldest of the Healers he knew and his own magic, and the best he was able to come up with was given a one percent chance by Wynn, whose mind Gabriel stripped to the core to ensure the Immortal didn't deceive him.
Ninety-five percent of the time her decisions put his best interest to mind – even above her own.
Think about it before you make a decision — and then I'm with you one hundred percent.
One tiny percent sounds so innocuous, whereas $1 billion is a colossal sum.
It's also helping them meet a congressional mandate to the military to reduce their fuel use by 20 percent.
An overwhelming 70 percent gave the contestants a landslide victory.
In the United States, planted biotech acreage increased 10 percent in 2004.
First, that the oils used are 100 percent natural, not adulterated in any way.
A special coating is said to enhance lift by 40 percent, with the help of turbulent airflow.
The encoding and decoding algorithms are simple, but the encoded data are consistently only about 33 percent larger than the uncoded data.
Four percent of all patients dying in tertiary care hospitals in Europe have invasive aspergillosis.
Despite the fact that New Zealand is on the other side of the world, 28 percent of registered attendees came from North America.
The yield on the futures contract due in December has gained 3 basis points this month to 5.26 percent.
Skip a beat pay a percent to be made.
Ten percent of both men and women reported wife beating in the last year.
Richie fits 100 percent and you can feel the strong bondage and the vibes between all group members.
Graviola makes up 50 percent of the N-Tense formula, which also consists of smaller amounts of the rainforest botanicals described below.
Despite the enormous capacity of the human brain, we only utilize on average less than three percent of our potential brainpower.
To achieve a breakthrough requires a suitable storage material of 6-7 weight percent hydrogen.
Revenue at Merrill's retail brokerage rose 5 percent to $ 2.8 billion, buoyed by higher interest income.
In the children's paper number you've uninsured kendall buffer in percent.
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