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Example sentences for "per"

Lexicographically close words:
peptic; peptone; peptones; peptonized; peptonizing; peracta; peraduenture; peradventure; perambulate; perambulated
  1. We owe to the pioneers such a vast debt of gratitude that we never can pay the the principal with no interest attached, and it's a different kind of interest than four per cent a month.

  2. You may lay this excitement to anger, being worsted, or anything you like, but I think the gentleman he came to remove from our home entered him one hundred per cent strong.

  3. Take away liquor, stop the traffic entirely, and you reduce seventy-five per cent of crime.

  4. There is also intertwined and resting sweetly in slumberland 175 shares of Cracker Engle Gold Mine Stock at twenty cents per share and twelve years accrued interest.

  5. I didn't lose on this deal but the money would have paid better on a straight five per cent rate.

  6. In no case have I found silver to exceed 6 per cent.

  7. Argillaceous matter has been sparingly used, the sand in many cases comprising at least 75 per cent.

  8. They are described in the Periodico di Numismatica e Sfragistica per la Storia d'Italia diretto dal March.

  9. Hale Castle, and of some seventy thousand per annum, gave a despondent sigh.

  10. What I mean by sympathy is that I like the way he appreciates the Chinese national culture, and wants to be a one hundred per cent Chinese.

  11. This is limited to the professional groups and their representation is not to exceed thirty per cent.

  12. A Chinese official, himself a social scientist, who had been intimately connected with local reform, stated that 50 per cent application for all Free China would be much too high an estimate, except for the holding of token elections.

  13. The Chinese were to lose no territory pro forma, and were to keep a minimum of 35 per cent interest in major economic enterprises.

  14. Flour was imported from New Spain at a cost of 10 reales per arroba, and the master workmen, the English masons, and the Spanish convicts were given rations from this store.

  15. Spanish skilled labor included the military engineer, Ignacio Daza, who was paid the top wage of 3 pesos per day.

  16. In addition to Indian labor, there were a few Spanish peons who were paid 4 reales per day, a few of the Crown's Negro slaves, and a number of convicts, either from the local presidio or sent from Caribbean ports.

  17. I don't in the least believe that 5 per cent.

  18. In selling them to the Public (for cash only) they will allow 10 per cent, discount.

  19. Perhaps twenty per cent of the population really has the disease; at San Bartolome perhaps seventy-five per cent are affected; in some towns an even larger proportion is reported.

  20. The disease was particularly fatal, in both places, to Americans and Englishmen, and it was whispered that 90 per cent of the employes of the new railroad management succumbed.

  21. Both had received $200 per annum for their services.

  22. The first keeper was John Thomas on whose land the original lighthouse was built, and for which rent of 5 shillings per year was paid him by the colony.

  23. A tonnage tax of 1 penny per ton on all vessels, except coasters, moving in or out of Boston Harbor, paid for maintaining the light.

  24. We didn't sign no papers, for which I am sorry, but that was the agreement; and now Timothy says that one-eighth of one per cent.

  25. He tried hard to talk me over to his side, but I was rigid, madam, I was rigid, and the business ended in my getting seven per cent.

  26. Two years ago I agreed with Timothy that he should furnish me with all the gravel I should want for one-eighth of one per cent.

  27. Even out of that he makes a hundred and fifty per cent.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "per" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adapted; after; all; aside; each; hereby; herewith; per; proper; thereby; through; upon; with


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    perennially navigable; perfect copy; perfect preservation; perfect right; perfect stranger; perfectly clean; perfectly good; perfectly happy; perforated zinc; perforating ulcer; period when; permanent crops; permit the; perpendicular wall; perpetual curate; perpetual exile; perpetual snow; person named; person shall; person should; person who; personal communication; personal nature; personal staff; persons killed; persons who