Use "percent" in a sentence

1. It's only three percent now, but it's been going up

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2. Studies have suggested that walking at a brisk pace for three or more hours a week can reduce our risk for coronary heart disease by 65 percent

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3. If your ideal life is living in a way that spending time with your children is everything to you, then you have to create your life in a way that allows you to live a life that is one hundred percent dedicated to your

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4. In preliminary experiments at his research greenhouse in Hilo, Hollingsworth applied a 2 percent solution of caffeine in water as a spray to the coconut husk-chips material in which orchids are grown

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5. The scientists found that the caffeine spray killed up to 95 percent of the snails

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6. In another experiment, the researchers showed that growth medium treated with the 2 percent caffeine solution had only 5 snails, when checked 30 days after the spray was applied

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7. Now that’s a smart shopping system which can increase your sales easily by 300 percent with no increase in the number of shoppers

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8. 58 percent of serious injuries in people 65 and older are caused by falls

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9. Car accidents account for 31 percent

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10. Another study revealed that 57 percent of women and 36 percent of men who die of injuries received the damage in a fall

11. Ominously, 40 percent of nursing home admissions of older people can be traced to a fall

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12. Four tons probably wasn't more than a few percent of the total refined aluminum on this world, but it was the largest single fortune in one place

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13. By the end of the first year you should have reduced your chemical usage by 80 percent

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14. You should also have increased your organic usage by 80 percent

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15. Giving advice is tempting, but it is better ninety percent of the time to remain silent unless asked

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16. 4 percent chance it would concern—at least tangentially—procreation

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17. I think it stands above a one percent chance today

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18. Over 400,000 tons of pesticides are applied each year by American farmers with less than one-tenth of one percent actually reaching targeted pests! A main source of contamination of our soil, water, air and food, as well as being highly inefficient, this method of pest control places at risk the health of the farmer and consumer alike

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19. He goes on to say that 75 percent of all pollution in the U

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20. Only sixty eight percent of aluminums change hands without being tested, seventy nine percent of the aluminum that changes hands is shipped between financial institutions in sealed and indexed plastic pouches

21. "We shouldn't stop thinking about the life we will have in the event of the ninety or ninety nine percent chance that it's going to miss us

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22. "Juleel seemed to think it was like ninety nine percent sure it was going to hit us

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23. New Dallas started taking Chinese souls in 2191 and had a fifteen percent share of Chinese souls since then, and a twenty three percent share of Brazilian

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24. A good fifty percent of them wanted children and lost interest when they found out I couldn’t have any more

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25. As a tech, using the diagnostic channels, he could get the real data to a screen in his mind's eye and see that they were really only at seventy five percent but there was none who would dare mention that to the Haadij

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26. "If we could convert ten percent of the population in ten Earth years by the message alone," Khalid said, "I would think that was very good progress

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27. But Bahkmar did understand that the only power input to the female side of Paradis on Al-Harron would carry, with a drop of thirty percent, eighty three milliamps at best

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28. How many of the souls on this ship had sacrificed their mortal lives in martyrdom for Talstan? He looked it up and found it to be thirteen percent of the crew

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29. He had not one percent of the will to resist

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30. Taxes in the time of Jesus were somewhere around 80 or 90 percent of the Jew’s wages

31. After you add Temple tax and Herod’s tax and Caesar’s tax and the tax collector’s share, you were left with somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of your money… This brings about an interesting struggle

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32. One question would be, if there weren’t any farmers in Jerusalem, then where did they get their food? It is believed that in the time of Jesus, 80 or 90 percent of the people of Israel were (or were at some point) some sort of farmer/fisherman/agricultural worker

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33. This is the reign of Herod: 10 percent have all the wealth and all the power, and the masses are reduced to unbearable poverty

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34. But then he was less than one percent the age of this woman

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35. The Nyobba is a hundred percent carnivore preying mainly on small tentacloids

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36. ‘Berndt, you are already less than a hundred percent, you need to eat

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37. In mortal man it is set to one hundred percent and immovable as long as he is young

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38. He was also offered a promotion to the position of Head of Light Entertainment with the BBC, which would have been fabulous had someone on the board of governors not insisted on inserting a clause in his contract forcing him to keep a whole twenty percent of the schedule for factual content

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39. The data flow levels he had detected required a thirtieth of a percent of the mass of the larger bodies to be in He4 condensates

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40. This room had been in zero gee during the years they were being duped at the study planet, it was now at one percent gravity with Sol directly below them as they decelerated into its orbit

41. He set his hormones to only thirty percent, enough so he could tell which personifications were more biologically stimulating

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42. "I chased down all the sightings of our possible spy," she said as she sunk into his guest chair at one percent gee

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43. A one percent error in our mass estimates could also account for the perturbations we see in the dark bodies' orbits

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44. He had left his space as is, the snowflakes were coming up from below at one percent gravity, Sol was a bright white point at their feet, their diversion just starting to be visible

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45. Even though he had his hormones set at thirty percent, she was still a very pleasant presence to have in his space, especially if she came in a costume from Alan’s world

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46. He turned them down to twenty percent

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47. He understood the eighty percent and twenty percent and that put his mind at ease a bit

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48. That meant one percent gravity, the glare of Sol almost directly below them, and the snowflakes rising slowly by them except when they passed thru a veil

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49. For seating he had provided plush plumes with ornately carved wooden arms, ergonomic for one percent gravity, invisible of course

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50. It was still set on thirty percent where he always had it

51. "She's a hundred percent standard as far as I know, she should run fine in here

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52. About thirty percent of the time, the effects of releasing

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53. 15 percent of those women will ultimately commit

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54. As they walked to the parking garage, the thirty percent of the ads that were in English told Ava that this had become in some ways the Las Vegas of Europe

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55. But that feels a hundred percent better

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56. Finally, and in a real one hundred and ten percent hissy fit, she

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57. This included all the times they were having sex, that in itself was almost ten percent of their waking time he thought

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58. I know far less than one percent of the staff however and probably hear about less than a tenth of the deaths

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59. percent of one percent of the population who lived and thought on a higher plain,

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60. “Ten percent is roughly two hundred and fifty thousand dollars Mr

61. You’re here to confirm or deny the other one percent

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62. “My love and admiration was a hundred percent genuine

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63. informed on numerous occasions at the Tavern that the only one hundred percent

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64. of the time and with men she’d gotten it one hundred percent of the time—until

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65. led the conference in hitting, threw out ninety percent of base stealers, and got

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66. Was this one of those times, she was expected to give a hundred and ten percent

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67. Eighty percent of the crowd fled the

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68. "Jim, we've been married for nearly twenty years, that's something I've taken great pride in, especially in a world with a fifty percent divorce rate

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69. Thirty percent of those guys went on to play college ball, ten

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70. They learned that the natives were well acquainted with the bio-energy balance of the mountain and what percent needed to be in what form and what the most efficient energy inputs were

71. A city running at over eighty percent thermal efficiency

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72. She documented that ten percent of the city's macrofauna lives above casual human reach

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73. It had only a twenty one percent credibility rating with the public however

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74. More than ninety five percent of the planet's population did not know it happened

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75. Occum's razor, ninety-something percent of the population is young adult, no children, no elderly

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76. Occum's razor says over ninety percent of the people born on this planet since Jesus are still alive

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77. With his half of the fifteen percent, he made enough to get by a few more days

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78. In the different colonies, both the legal and the market rate of interest run from six to eight percent

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79. I bid for this one until it reached my maximum, the auctioneer waited a moment and on the spur of the moment I bid an extra ten percent

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80. "I would guess thirty percent of the basin's population is following those reports

81. In the sixty-four years of the present century, accordingly, the average price of the quarter of nine bushels of the best wheat, at Windsor market, appears, by the accounts of Eton college, to have been £ 2:0:6 10/32, which is about ten shillings and sixpence, or more than five-and-twenty percent

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82. The lack of food, drugs and heating had taken a massive toll on the survivors of the initial pulse and now, a mere three months on, Nathaniel estimated that a full fifty percent of the population were dead

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83. "About one percent as much as we would be if Heymon's guys misalign that motor

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84. "Yes, in addition we have restored less than ten percent of the recovered suntowers to service, and we've probably recovered one percent of those that were manufactured

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85. In the Zhlindu basin, sixty seven percent believed in the starship, the total of all the worlds it was only fifty three percent

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86. She continued to give ten percent of her salary, regardless of

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87. percent of income rule

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88. Ten percent is the minimum you should be

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89. Anything above and beyond the ten percent is

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90. percent of your boss’ satisfaction is related to only 20 percent of your

91. percent is the common benchmark, but 10% has also been heard of

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92. Even if you look at a moderate increase in your sales of one or two percent, this

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93. The thirty or forty percent of the log they could make out---that wasn't the incessant static---seemed pretty routine ship's stuff: waypoints along the voyage, commendations for service, maintenance and upgrade notes

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94. “There's an eighty-four percent chance that those three ships have been traveling for fifteen days

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95. More than ten percent of them concern life readings on past and present incarnations

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96. At that time only twenty percent of the Pittsburgh population was black

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97. Our sales have dropped 40 percent in the last six months

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98. According to a study of 10,000 people, those who ate the most apples had a 50 percent lower risk of developing lung cancer

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99. Researchers found that people who ate the most Beta-carotene had a forty percent lower risk of macular degeneration compared with those who consumed the least

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100. A carrot a day reduces stroke risk by 68 percent