fifty percent

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That is down from September 2004, when it had about 10,200 employees, a decrease of about fifteen percent, even though the economy is nearly fifty percent larger.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2025

“He won 62% of the Hispanic vote, fifty percent of single females and won by a million and a half votes,” the congressman said.

From Washington Times • Apr. 7, 2023

“How do we discuss the issue of peace and security and leave out fifty percent of the population?”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2023

Treating that population at home is a potentially lucrative market: Revenue in home health care grew by more than fifty percent between 2013 and 2020, according to the Census Bureau.

From Washington Post • Sep. 4, 2022

Normally she buys boxes of cards, marked fifty percent off at department stores in January, always forgetting, by the following winter, exactly where in the house she’s put them.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri