He was to get a certain percentage of the stock for selling it to his friends, the Astors, Goulds, etc.
As a partial consideration for this he was to receive this mans beautiful home and a certain percentage of the stock.
In a given number of people in a given state of civilization there will be a certain percentage of murders, a certain percentage of thefts, robberies, and the like; nay, a certain average number of suicides.
Mr. Godfrey, dissatisfied with certain losses, had engaged a man of business to overlook the whole concern, and in addition to a stipulated sum, this person was to receive a certain percentage of the profits.
The result is that a certain percentage of bankrupts do regularly set fire to their stores.
In a certain percentage of cases the symptoms {826} may be entirely latent, and the cause of a sudden death be revealed only on the post-mortem table.
On the other hand, a certain percentage of cases is characterized by a defiance to every kind of treatment, including the last resort, a change of climate.
We will first say that milk contains a certain percentage of protein, carbohydrates, and fat.
When bacteria, growing in a solution of sugar, have excreted alcohol until it forms a certain percentage of the total contents, their activity ceases--they die from poisons thrown off from their own bodies.
This source of loss is extremely difficult to prevent, inasmuch as nearly all materials used for flooring absorb a certain percentage of urine.
They contain a certain percentage of caustic alkali, which promotes the decomposition of the nitrogenous matter of the soil.
Furthermore, only a certain percentage of these substances is in a soluble or immediately available condition,--in this respect the rotten manure being very much more valuable than the fresh manure.
All seasons of the year (except when too great an abundance of a favourite flower abounds) yield a certain percentage of moths attracted by sugar.
Hemorrhage~ occurs in a certain percentage of cases of typhoid regardless of the diet, whether it be a strictly milk diet or the high calorie diet just described.
Kidney Complications~ develop in a certain percentage of cases, and it then becomes necessary to institute one of the various diets devised to meet the needs of those special conditions (see Chapter XVIII).
Subtract from that the loyal aliens, but add a certain percentage of the native-born element, members of seditious societies and followers of the red flag, and the Reds had a potential army of dangerous size.
A certain percentage of American-born workmen fell before the hammer-like blows of his words, repeated and driven home each week.
And then there was a third division, small and mostly foreign born, but with a certain percentage of native malcontents, who hated the war and sneered among themselves at the other dupes who believed that it was a war for freedom.
If the customer bought very bulky goods, or if he did not wish to be his own delivery man, the grocer charged him for delivery a certain percentage of the total of his cash purchases.
They are called real estate agents, and for their services get a commission, which is a certain percentage of the purchase or the selling price and a certain percentage of the amount of rent collected.
In this case, he takes the note to his banker, who will pay him the five hundred dollars less a certain percentage or discount, which is the bank's profit on the transaction.
This is usually a certain percentage of the gross receipts, or sometimes, in the case of street railway companies, a certain sum for each car operated.
When the compensation is a certain percentage of the receipts, provision ought to be made for examination of the books of the company in order to prevent the public from being defrauded of its share of the earnings.
The debt limit is usually a certain percentage of the assessed valuation of the taxable property within the city.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "certain percentage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
