Sentence examples for couple percent from inspiring English sources

Whereas "a fraction of a percent, to a couple percent" of those who receive Bluefly e-mail solicitations turn into paying customers, 3 or 4percentt of those who are sent Bluefly postcards make purchases, Mr. Morris said.

Only about a couple percent of stars have a Jupiter-sized planet at a distance comparable to Jupiter's orbit.

DG: We have very low default rates — a couple percent or thereabouts.

America moved from a 19th-century economy with agriculture accounting for over 70% of employment, to just a couple percent of jobs today.

Mr. ARRINGTON: What percentage of customers can you convert to giving you money – single digit, couple percent, five percent?

Some estimates say that up to a fifth of sun-like stars in the galaxy have planetary systems like ours, which puts the total fraction at a couple percent.

To get a rough estimate of the impact of a firm's operating income for a following year, multiply the ending fair value of plan assets by expected decreases in the expected earnings rate say, half a percent to a couple percentage points.

A couple of percent if you are lucky.

But they have only lost a couple of percent more in this sell-off period.

Half live in households headed by a married couple; 49 percent live in the suburbs.

Less than a couple of percent is from all the nuclear reactors and all the research industry".