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Example sentences for "five percent"

  • The central government is to bear twenty-five percent of the cost of equipment and lend another twenty-five percent to start the enterprise.

  • Statistics have shown that seventy-five percent of the home-made bread of America was a poor product.

  • In Alabama there was a sixty-five percent decrease in property values, in Florida forty-five percent, and in Louisiana fifty to seventy-five percent.

  • Approximately twenty-five percent of the São Paulo plantations are cultivated by machinery.

  • Coffee is grown on all the islands of the group, but nowhere to any great extent except on Hawaii, which produces ninety-five percent of the entire crop.

  • Of the capital invested in all industries, about eighty-five percent was in coffee production and commerce, including the railroads that depended upon it directly.

  • I was told that about seventy-five percent of the Czar’s officers were in the Soviet Army.

  • Seventy-five percent of the people could not read or write.

  • At least ninety-five percent of the teachers were women, and they had all received special training for their profession.

  • Visiting physicians of the public schools in our large cities report that seventy-five percent of all school children show defective health in some way.

  • Actually, the Weather Bureau averages a bare seventy-five percent, and you know it.

  • Fully seventy-five percent of the American people, without regard to political affiliation, favored some phase or degree of "greenbackism.

  • How much stock in an unbuilt railroad do you think can be sold at any price when good farm lands adjacent can be bought at twenty-five percent of par?

  • Then both freight and passenger rates were increased twenty-five percent, generally, and in many instances, one hundred percent, and no one murmured.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "five percent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    family history; five acts; five books; five bushels; five centimes; five dollars; five eggs; five feet; five hundred years ago; five kilometres; five lines; five marks; five men; five miles from the; five parasangs; five percent; five petals; five points; five shekels; five volumes; five wounded; little anxiety; make thee; necessary truths; quite unconscious; will fear