percentage
Example Sentences
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Less than one percent of American adults are active-duty service members in the military, with an even smaller fraction of that percentage seeing combat.
From Salon
The net percentage of small-business owners raising prices in November increased by 13 percentage points to 34%, the largest monthly jump on record.
From Barron's
An increase in net exports supplied 1.6 percentage points to growth.
Since the early 1990s, the percentage of 35-year-old women with bachelor’s degrees who are married has remained steady at about 70%.
The vagaries of trade figures added around 1.6 percentage points to the overall tally.
From Barron's
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