PER in a Sentence

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For PER, below is one of 110 sentences:
Perhaps ten per cent compose the well-to-do and the best of the laborers, while at least nine per cent are thoroughly lewd and vicious.

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 Meanings and Examples of PER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
per
 prep.  for each; for every
 ad.  each; for each one
Classic Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1  unum per disceptationem, alterum per vim; cumque illud.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII(*) — CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH PRINCES SH...
2  Seventeen per cent were clergymen; another seventeen per cent were in the professions, chiefly as physicians.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  Over six per cent were merchants, farmers, and artisans, and four per cent were in the government civil-service.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
4  Perhaps ten per cent compose the well-to-do and the best of the laborers, while at least nine per cent are thoroughly lewd and vicious.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
5  The rest, over eighty per cent, are poor and ignorant, fairly honest and well meaning, plodding, and to a degree shiftless, with some but not great sexual looseness.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
6  Only ten per cent of the adult population was born in the county, and yet the blacks outnumber the whites four or five to one.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
7  A "submerged tenth" of croppers, with a few paupers; forty per cent who are metayers and thirty-nine per cent of semi-metayers and wage-laborers.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
8  The average metayer pays from twenty to thirty per cent of his crop in rent.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
9  The renters for fixed money rentals are the first of the emerging classes, and form five per cent of the families.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
10  Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
11  My work pleased the captain so well that he told me if I desired I could continue working for a small amount per day.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.
12  The charge for my board at Hampton was ten dollars per month.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.
13  I saw other young men who received seventy-five or one hundred dollars per month from the Government, who were in debt at the end of every month.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V.
14  We learned that about eighty-five per cent of the coloured people in the Gulf states depended upon agriculture for their living.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII.
15  Effort or means so invested will pay a thousand per cent interest.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIV.
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
16  Five per cent of children stammer at some point.
17  Annual consumption of wine has risen from five to eleven litres per head.
18  Sales rose by nought point four per cent last month.
19  The quota of four tickets per person had been reduced to two.
20  They have the world's largest per capita income.
21  Economists emphasize measurable quantities — the number of jobs, the per capita income.
22  Real income per head of population was at a low point five years ago.
23  The increase will not be in excess of two per cent.
24  Thirteen per cent of the population live below the poverty line.
25  The national average is just over two children per family.
26  Sixty per cent of all marital separations occur before the tenth year of marriage.
27  Ninety per cent of lone parent families are headed by mothers.
28  The percentage of school leavers that go to university is about five per cent.
29  The curve illustrates costs per capita.
30  He drove at a speed of sixty miles per hour.