percentage
Example Sentences
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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
A lower deficit added 1.6 percentage points to the official growth rate.
From MarketWatch
That is a consumption gap of about 25 percentage points of GDP—a massive deviation from what you would expect at this stage of development.
From Barron's
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