For some time after the conclusion of the late war, not only private people of the best credit, but some of the greatest companies in London, commonly borrowed at five per cent.
In 1725, it was again raised to the twentieth penny, or to five per cent.
Restoration, and by the 12th of Queen Anne, to five per cent.
According to Miss Kellor's report this description of employment agencies and lodging houses attached to them applies to about seventy-five per cent of all offices in the four cities examined.
We could reclaim fully seventy-five per cent," declares Miss Miner, "if only we could find a way to begin nearer the beginning.
That more than seventy-five per cent of the American soldiers in France had been infected with venereal diseases.
They paid, however, twenty-five per cent of the sum total of our taxes.
James and the other eight children of 'Superior Dosset,' of whom there are still five alive, may be said to have represented Victorian England, with its principles of trade and individualism at five per cent.
He felt as though someone had threatened his right to invest his money at five per cent.
The testimony before the Industrial Commission showed that from forty to forty-five per cent.
In thirty-three of our largest cities the foreign population is larger than the native; in Milwaukee and Fall River the foreign percentage rises as high as eighty-five per cent.
Sidenote: Where Located] About seventy-five per cent, of the Bohemians live in the northwest.
As pecuniary investments they pay well, the rents sometimes yielding thirty-five per cent.
She owns the house, and has a few boarders who pay her fifty dollars a week for board, and ten dollars a bottle for their wine, and twenty- five per cent, on the profits of her boarders.
The reply was brief and to the point: 'Twenty-five per cent, of the increase for one year.
Nearly every man drew a 'prize' and was at once notified, on receiving the sum of five per cent.
I earned twenty-five per in New York by getting names down fine.
If that happened, he would be raised to "twenty-five per" and would be a man of means.
The Lake Superior iron found in Minnesota is usually more than fifty-five per cent.
The chinch-bug is responsible for the loss of five per cent.
Machine peat is supposed to have sixty-five per cent.
It has been found by careful estimate that from eighty-five per cent.
This company claims to have lost but one life in ten years, and to save seventy-five per cent.
A commission of five per cent is offered you for buying the vessel for them, said commission to be split fifty-fifty with the North and South American Steamship Company; this being the Mexican way of doing business, as you know.
Five per cent," Skinner sniffled, for his heart was broken.
Congress, however, fixed this tax at about one half, thus making the interest on such loans equivalent in fact to five per cent.
Gray & Green, who agreed to pay him four dollars a week, and did pay that amount in wildcat money, which saved them about twenty-five per cent.
By the middle of May, Clemens wrote to Bliss that he had twelve hundred manuscript pages of the new book already written, and that he was turning out the remainder at the rate of from thirty to sixty-five per day.
Mark Twain tells us in Life on the Mississippi that he "ran away," vowing never to return until he could come home a pilot, shedding glory.
In an autobiographical chapter published in The North American Review he tells of the move to Hannibal and relates that he himself was left behind by his absentminded family.
He lived at this time with a Pavey family, probably one of the Hannibal Paveys, rooming with a youth named Frank E.
He had received an offer of five hundred dollars for his office--the amount of the mortgage--and in his moonlight reverie he decided to dispose of it on those terms.
If he realized that he had learned only five per cent of his profession, that there remained ninety-five per cent to accomplish before he would be a good soldier, why, he had profited immensely.
Forty-five per cent of the revenue was then turned over to the Santo Domingan Government, and fifty-five per cent put in a sinking fund in New York for the benefit of the creditors.
This standard for a receiving rate is harder and later, and inquiry at schools where it is taught shows that about seventy-five per cent of those who begin the study fail to reach this speed and so are not employed.
This department, both in its practical and theoretical side, should have its full share of prizes and scholarships to stimulate the seventy to seventy-five per cent of students who are now unaffected by the influence of athletics.
We have imposed a tax of five per cent, on all gross receipts above Seventy-ninth street.
Vanderbilt is said to have boasted in 1853 that he had eleven million dollars invested at twenty-five per cent.
According to the Interstate Commerce Commission's report, in 1907, the New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad owned in that year about forty-five per cent.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "five per" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
