Nevertheless telephone business may be said to have been generally resumed on the seventh, the day after the disaster, and the load of local traffic soon attained over one hundred and twenty percent above its average figure.
One must be local to be interested in ninety percent of what the papers print.
No one in New York ever read Gibbon--ninety-nine percent never heard of him.
It doesn't take any Ulleran psychologist to know that about eightypercent of them hate us poisonously.
If the calf tally showed a hundred percent increase, he would think that about right, and no questions; but if ever it fell short o' what he expected, we had it to make up some way.
He kept on gettin' stronger all the time, an' a good percent of his meanness came back with his strength.
It passed through the lux metal case and through the coronium bar, only to be cut off by the relux liner, which, since it was rough, absorbed over ninety-nine percent of the rays that struck it.
They're charged again; the power went back into them from the big coil with only a five percent loss of power--about twenty thousand megawatts.
The cockroach nymph formed 5 percent of the food of one lizard.
He found Orthoptera (nearly all were unidentified nymphal cockroaches) in the litter of dead leaves, twigs, and other plant products in over 90 percent of the quadrats he examined.
The organism occurred in about 40 percent of the cockroaches examined.
On the west side, you descend a 40-percent grade to a shelf, back down a narrow stretch of about 30-percent grade and back sharply to the left onto a flat rock, then go forward again.
In order to reach the confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers, The Grabens, and Chesler and Virginia Parks, drivers must conquer formidable Elephant Hill, with its 40 percent grades and backup switchbacks.
In spite of new infantry weapons that forced cannon ever farther to the rear, artillery was to become so deadly that its fire caused over 75 percent of the battlefield casualties in World War I.
So thoroughly did these guns do their work that the Germans annihilated the enemy at the cost of only 5 percent casualties.
Because of its toughness, less metal was needed in a bronze gun than in a cast-iron one, so in spite of the fact that bronze is about 20 percent heavier than iron, the bronze piece was usually the lighter of the two.
Loblolly and shortleaf pine cones are seldom over 20 percent infested.
No accurate figures are available on the damage directly attributable to this pest, but mortality losses are estimated to average about 30 percent in susceptible areas.
From 70 to 90 percent of the trees attacked by the beetle die.
Longleaf pine cones in Texas and Louisiana have also had over 60 percentcone infestation on occasion.
An exception to this is on slash pine in Florida where over 70 percent of one year's cones were reported infested.
WOOD DECAY Wood decay of southern forest trees is responsible for nearly 80 percent of all loss attributed to disease.
Of the latter it lured into its own hands a very large proportion by what is commonly called "the fifteen million loan"--an issue of eight percent bonds authorized in February, 1861.
The Treasury was authorized to issue eight percent bonds, to fall due in twenty years, and to sell them for specie or to exchange them for produce or manufactured articles.
It is a component, present to the extent of two or three percent in certain natural gas, though ranging as high as eight or ten percent in favored areas.
Company F suffered 50 percent casualties getting ashore and swarming over the seawall to seize a precarious foothold.
Mike” Ryan’s Company L, forced to wade ashore when their boats grounded on the reef, sustained 35 percent casualties.
I'll have to forget the five percent margin and hit it on the nose or not at all.
Another tenth of a second and his bomb wouldn't have fitted--he didn't have the fivepercent leeway he wanted, remember.
That means nine point nine oh six kilograms of duodec basic charge, with one five percent over and one five percent under that for alternates.
Profits of less than 25 percent are the exception.
The investable surplus is greater in the United States than in any other nation, and in amount as well as in percent the national debt is less than that in any other important nation except Japan.
The campaign for "100 percent Americanism," carefully thought out, generously financed and carried to every nook and corner of the United States aims to prove this necessity.
With the greatest estimated wealth of any of the warring countries, she had a public national debt of less than one half of one percent of her total wealth.
The south side of the cellar hole sloped outwards at an approximate 65 percent angle and the traces of boards lay against it.
Then eliminate all newly started interplantings and ruthlessly hoe out at least 75 percent of the remaining immature plants and about half of those about two weeks away from harvest.
Trying to maintain organic matter levels above 10 percent is an almost self-defeating process.
Suppose inches-thick layers of compost were spread and, by double digging, the organic matter content of a very sandy soil were amended to 10 percent down to 2 feet.
But over 80 percent of our calories are from vegetable, fruit, or cereal sources and the remaining percentage is from fats or dairy foods.
If the soil is a relatively equal mix of all three, containing no more than 35 percent clay, we call it a loam.
In this satchel I can see only a few five percentbonds and some transfers--no actual cash.
The amount under this subparagraph shall, for any fiscal year, be equal to 45 percent of the sum total of the final basic pay of the employees described in paragraph (3).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "percent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: fraction; percentage; proportion; quota; rate; ratio
