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Example sentences for "small percentage"

  • Titaniferous iron ores, extensive deposits of which are known in many places, usually contain a small percentage of vanadium.

  • A small percentage of the phosphate is also ground up and applied directly to the soil in the raw form.

  • Less important deposits are known in Galicia, Tunis, Russia, and eastern Abyssinia, and the nitrate deposits of Chile contain a small percentage of potash which is being recovered in some of the operations.

  • A third would be the deliberate elevation by a small percentage of the charge for exchange.

  • A small percentage of cotton is handled in this way.

  • A special requirement of one section would represent only a small percentage of the total massed reserves.

  • The establishment of and attendance at these primary schools was wholly voluntary, and the children in them probably represented but a small percentage of those of school age in the total population.

  • From Figure 4 it will be seen what a small percentage of the total population this included.

  • They represented but a small percentage of the total population, which they held in subjection to them by their military power.

  • However, if a boiled oil is found to contain on analysis a small percentage of rosin less than 0.

  • It is often used in small percentage in many ready-mixed paints.

  • A small percentage of mineral oil is said to be valuable in structural steel paints, acting as a preventative of hard drying and thus keeping the film soft and elastic.

  • Thus the first fraction consists of benzene containing a small percentage of toluene, then comes over a mixture containing a larger proportion of toluene, then comes a purer toluene mixed with a small percentage of xylene.

  • Take, for example, the singular fact that yeast will increase indefinitely when grown in the dark, in water containing only tartrate of ammonia a small percentage of mineral salts and sugar.

  • A small percentage of children are of such low mentality that they cannot do the ordinary school work.

  • The oath increases the liability of truth only a small percentage.

  • While only a small percentage of the population has this defect, it is nevertheless very important that those having it be detected.

  • All these extracts contain mainly hematein, together with a small percentage of hematoxylin which is converted to the former during the dyeing process.

  • But here appeared the wisdom of restricting the numbers of the professed to a small percentage of the whole Society.

  • Whether such moral mad folk really extended the sphere of the pestilence to any appreciable extent remains a matter for conjecture; and it is quite certain that all but a small percentage of the accused were victims of calumny.

  • It is in the Aminta, in the episodes of the Gerusalemme, in a small percentage of the Rime, that we find the true Tasso.

  • A small percentage of cures will follow the proper use of a good truss, and the advertisements of the so-called rupture cures are founded upon such cases.

  • The injection of the tumors with a fluid which causes coagulation of the blood, and which does not completely shut off the return current of the circulation through the tumors, has proved fatal in a small percentage of cases.

  • A German blasting explosive containing ammonium nitrate, trinitro-toluene, wood meal and a small percentage of potassium perchlorate.

  • A Gelignite containing a small percentage of dinitro-toluene to prevent the nitroglycerine freezing.

  • It is notable that a small percentage of the ware of all localities is red.

  • A small percentage of the vessels are painted or stained red.

  • Associated with the white ware in most localities we find a small percentage of red ware nearly identical in all save color with the white ware.

  • When electric sparks are passed through oxygen or air a small percentage of the oxygen is converted into a substance called ozone, which differs greatly from oxygen in its properties.

  • Babbitt metal, used for journal bearings in machinery, contains the same metals in a different proportion together with a small percentage of copper.

  • When electric sparks are passed for some time through a mixture of hydrogen and nitrogen, a small percentage of the two elements in the mixture is changed into ammonia.

  • The class of objects illustrated in this and the two preceding cuts comprises but a small percentage of the chisel-like implements.

  • The ornaments are found only in a small percentage of the graves, those probably of persons sufficiently opulent to possess them in life; a majority of the graves contain none whatever.

  • A small percentage of silver is also present in some of the specimens examined, but this is probably a natural alloy.

  • The paving or pack consists of earth and water worn stones, the latter pitched in without order and forming but a small percentage of the filling.

  • Yet it occurs in a small percentage of cases--viz.

  • The somewhat extensive range of the present treatise, however, will not admit of my rendering more than a small percentage of the facts which in each case go to corroborate the conclusion.

  • Thin cream, which includes the grades that have only a small percentage of fat, contains a larger quantity of milk than the others and is not so desirable for many purposes.

  • As very little milk is retained in butter, only a small percentage of protein is found in this food.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small percentage" 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:
    small amounts; small animals; small block; small bottle; small brass; small bulb; small children; small dimensions; small escort; small figure; small fragment; small girl; small gold; small house; small mammals; small parcel; small picture; small present; small public; small rock; small space; small stewpan; small system; small vessel; small wire; smallest independent