PERCENT in a Sentence

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For PERCENT, below is one of 44 sentences:
Of all persons who have been diagnosed as epileptic, between three and five percent are known to be of the photosensitive type.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERCENT
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percent
 n.  out of each hundred; per hundred; one part in a hundred
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Example Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
16  He reports almost 16,000 incidents of fake notes in the first three months of 2006, a staggering 92 percent increase compared to the same period a year ago.
17  Newport pointed out that disapproval ratings for President Bush were 47 percent in January 2004, just 10 months before he won a second term.
18  Although the Russian state owns the largest share in the consortium - 24 percent - its influence will be moderated by the energy companies whose oil will actually be pumped along the pipeline.
19  The Department of Homeland Security says it has effective control of less than 15 percent of our southern border with Mexico.
20  India hasn't been as successful, but the U.N. says it is nonetheless on track to cut its poverty rate from 51 percent in 1990 to 24 percent in 2015.
21  Savings of up to 50 percent are obtainable.
22  Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels will produce a 3 percent reduction in the density of Earth's outermost atmosphere by 2017.
23  Of all persons who have been diagnosed as epileptic, between three and five percent are known to be of the photosensitive type.
24  The profits don't stay with the Dublin subsidiary, which reported pretax income of less than 1 percent of sales in 2008, according to Irish records.
25  She has invested a large percent of her salary.
26  According to one study, belts are worn only by about fifteen percent of drivers and passengers in cities, and only nine percent in small towns.
27  The company has failed to achieve last year's sales projections by thirty percent.
28  I agree with you a hundred percent.
29  Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.
30  The candidate for the far right got ten percent of the vote.