Sentence examples for exorbitant percentage from inspiring English sources

Not to be confused with a sell fee, which is the exorbitant percentage an estate agent takes just for showing a few people round a house.

These FDIC guarantees were arguably even more valuable to the recipient companies than the TARP cash injections because without them their futures were in doubt; any attempt to issue debt would have likely resulted in exorbitant interest rates and a reduction in the percentage of the company owned by existing shareholders.

As they acknowledge, if someone pays back the Activehours loan in two weeks after receiving $100 and paying a $10 tip, it would amount to an annual percentage rate of 260%, which is similar to the exorbitant rates charged by payday lenders.

43 As providers were paid a percentage above the charged rate, it was in the providers' financial interest to maintain exorbitant charges, a practice that has persisted despite the change in reimbursement.

The thrill was exorbitant.

And the costs are exorbitant.

Prices are often exorbitant.

Ticket prices are exorbitant by Indian standards.

Despite this, the exorbitant profit margins of academic publishers – who often do not pay their authors, editors and reviewers – continue to grow unchecked while library budgets shrink as a percentage of university spending.

Fans have paid exorbitant prices for tickets.

"The price is obviously exorbitant," she said.