percentage
Example Sentences
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"The percentage of preventable cancers can change over time and our goal is to get it as close to zero as possible," he said.
From BBC
Separately, PayPal guided for earnings per share to decrease by a mid-single-digit percentage in both the current quarter and the full fiscal year.
The calculation now isn’t as simple as a percentage of price.
Natural gas futures saw their largest one-day percentage decline since 1995 due to warmer weather forecasts and expectations of inventory buildup.
The front-month silver contract swung in a range of more than 20 percentage points during wild trading, finishing the day lower and bringing the metal’s total decline to 33% over the past two sessions.
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