Phrase info Synonyms

per cent

Speech parts

1. per cent - Noun

2. per cent - Adverb

3. per cent - Phrase

Meaning

per cent (plural per cent)

(chiefly Commonwealth) Form of percent

per cent

(chiefly Commonwealth) Form of percent.

per cent.

(archaic) Alternative form of percent

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per cent.

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Examples

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were. Hans Blix

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. Thornton Wilder

Marketing, and the whole firm, should devote extraordinary endeavour towards delighting, keeping for ever and expanding the sales to the 20 per cent of customers who provide 80 per cent. Richard Koch

The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits -- ah! that is another matter -- twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent -- the sky is the limit. Smedley Butler

We have rigged the latest election. 93.5 per cent have voted for Lukashenko. But they say it is not a European outcome. We have made it 86 per cent. Alexander Lukashenko

Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration. American Proverb

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