Sentence examples for cent from inspiring English sources

Eighty per cent of the GCSE attainment gap is present by age seven.

But the fact that more than fifteen per cent of personal consumption expenditures now go to medical care, when in 1930 only three per cent of personal consumption did, isn't a reflection of frivolity, and that's not going to change any time soon.

A generation ago, Warren says, basics (housing costs, health insurance, transportation, education, and taxes) accounted for fifty-four per cent of the average family's income.

In addition, Nordbanken, the largest bank nationalized in Sweden, was already eighty per cent government-owned.

The party's attempts to broaden its appeal comes as it trails far behind the major parties in the polls on just a few per cent of the vote.

According to the parliamentary library, indexation would add around one cent a litre to the current rate in the first year.

If these windows into the future become a reality, then Australia can look forward to an ecological disaster while developing a new multi-cent tourism industry derived from slime gazing.

Like when you see someone decked out in fantastic, gorgeous fashion – with a 99-cent pair of chancletas (flip-flops) for footwear.

The Chinese government is also believed to run an army of netizens to reinforce favourable opinion towards it and the Communist Party of China (CCP), dubbed the "50-cent army" in reference to how much they are said to paid.

Government officials don't refer to the 50-cent army by name, but in 2010 an editorial in the state-backed Global Times discussed the "invisible commenters" of the web.

Average hourly earnings took a hit, decreasing by 5 cents in December, following a 6-cent increase in November.