percentage
Example Sentences
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The first is the amount of the valley — shown in a satellite image — covered in poppies and goldfields, expressed as a percentage.
From Los Angeles Times
Metros there, including Laredo, Texas, and Yuma, Ariz., saw some of the biggest percentage declines in population growth rates in the most recently measured year.
That’s a whopping 32 percentage points more than the S&P 500 over the same span.
Note that the percentages in the right three columns of the table indicate how many prior months were less bullish than today’s reading.
From MarketWatch
The tracker uses data on the percentage of patients in Scotland waiting less than 12 weeks for inpatient or day case treatment.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
