Sentence examples for a percentage from from inspiring English sources

I get a percentage from the business so I was quick to learn how to work that out.

Most casinos pay for the lights and the dealer by subtracting either a fixed amount or a percentage from the pot.

She eschews ads on the site, but openly solicits donations and earns a percentage from books purchased on her recommendation through Amazon.

Like the so-called independent financial advisors who flogged dodgy endowments in the Eighties and Nineties, because they were on a percentage from the mortgage companies, the analysts were also paid by the banks to market the dotcoms.

In fact, the levy was one option among many; another idea, more likely to be adopted by a Labour government (even this one), is to raise a percentage from each estate, so the rich pay (posthumously) more.

While Harper's gets a percentage from each item sold, Ms. Smith said the site was also "an opportunity for an advertiser to tell their story in the store just like you would buy a window in Saks Fifth Avenue".

The household savings rate declined three-tenths of a percentage point from a year earlier.

It is also falling rapidly: unemployment is down more than a percentage point from a year ago.

It takes a set percentage from an investment in any fund, which is labeled clearly for users to see.

Trailing stops are slightly fancier and trigger a sale when a security falls by a certain percentage from its high.

(A percentage unchanged from the year before).