Percent
in sentence
3903 examples of Percent in a sentence
All that stuff is in that five
percent
that we've explored.
The thing I want to leave you with is, in that five percent, I showed you some cool stuff.
So what's in that other 95
percent?
Happily, the rate of unintended pregnancy has fallen in the last few years by about 10
percent.
Despite having only two options, both of which have significant drawbacks, men currently account for 30
percent
of all contraceptive use, with 10
percent
of couples relying on vasectomy and 20
percent
of couples using condoms.
Why are 20
percent
of couples relying on condoms for contraception when condoms have a one-year failure rate of over 15
percent?
Men make a thousand sperm every second and to have an effective contraceptive, you need to get that level of sperm production down to one
percent
of its normal value.
Testosterone and progesterone, when administered together, will suppress the signals from the brain to the testes to make sperm, and in about 90
percent
of men, sperm production after three to four months will stop.
Unfortunately, 10
percent
of men don't respond to these hormonal regimens for reasons that aren't understood.
Multiply that times 50, you get 25,000, which is within one
percent
of the actual diameter of the Earth.
And then, based on the distance between the two stations and the speed of his wheel and the number of notches in the wheel, he calculates the speed of light to within two
percent
of its actual value.
Let's see, I'd say about three or four
percent.
And if we can quiet it down and walk in and say, "I'm going to do this," we look up and the critic that we see pointing and laughing, 99
percent
of the time is who?
I would bet there aren't 10
percent
of you in the room that know how many aircraft carriers there are in the world.
And the United States uses about 20 million barrels a day, which is about 25
percent
of all the oil used everyday in the world.
And we're doing it with four
percent
of the population.
And when you look at what we're using the oil for, 70
percent
of it is used for transportation fuel.
It's 25
percent
cleaner than oil.
So you will cut 60
percent
off of OPEC with eight million trucks.
Breast cancer, mortality is down to four
percent.
Ninety-eight
percent
of people really thought this just should have been normal practice, and that this is how things should work.
I actually think that, in places like Oregon, where you can have physician-assisted suicide, you take a poisonous dose of stuff, only half a
percent
of people ever do that.
I'm more interested in what happens to the 99.5
percent
of people who don't want to do that.
It was only by the turn of the century that more than 90
percent
of the children survived their first year.
Economic growth to me, as a public-health professor, is the most important thing for development because it explains 80
percent
of survival.
The Internet is home to two billion people, or 30
percent
of the world's population.
And what's interesting is we did that on less than one
percent
of the competition's budget.
The second is more than 90
percent
of the weight of a vehicle is in propellant.
If we look at this carefully, we find it's about 40
percent
of the Earth's land surface is devoted to agriculture, and it's 60 times larger than all the areas we complain about, our suburban sprawl and our cities where we mostly live.
We already use about 50
percent
of the Earth's fresh water that's sustainable, and agriculture alone is 70
percent
of that.
Back
Next
Related words
About
People
Their
There
Years
Population
Which
World
Would
Women
Three
Actually
Found
Going
Other
Where
Today
Think
Could
Between
