Sentence examples for cent meaning from inspiring English sources

For whole chickens, the salmonella "performance standard" was set at twenty per cent, meaning that one in every five bird carcasses could be contaminated.

Our deficit has gone up a scant fifteen per cent more than it did last year, well short of the projected seventeen per cent, meaning that it hardly exists.

Most energy-storage systems have round-trip efficiency of about eighty per cent, meaning that you lose twenty per cent as you store the energy and then retrieve it.

Ukip is on 6 per cent, and the Brexit Party, launched yesterday by Nigel Farage, is on 8 per cent, meaning that the combined pro-Brexit, anti-deal parties are the third biggest force in politics.

Now that number is about thirty-one per cent, meaning that fewer than a third of men keep jobs that they got in their prime into their late working years.

Next year, global consumption of fossil fuels is expected to grow by about two per cent, meaning that emissions will rise by more than half a billion tons, and the following year consumption is expected to grow by yet another two per cent.

E-books can cost as little as cents, meaning that you'll have to sell a lot of books in order to make publishing profitable over the long term.

The pair agreed to "split the penny," meaning that each of them would pocket half a cent a pound, for a total of $65,000 apiece.

Skinnygirl bars were at thirty-four-per-cent brand awareness, meaning that thirty-four per cent of Walmart customers had already heard of the brand, even though the store did not yet stock them.

"Republicans haven't been trying to reach the bottom twenty per cent," he said, meaning the poor.

"One hundred and twenty per cent," he replied, meaning that the masseurs, soigneurs, mechanics, and support staff would be doing so as well.