Sentence examples for percentage rather than from inspiring English sources

Positions in the standing will be determined by winning percentage rather than the traditional points system.

Lawmakers and coal industry officials would have been on firmer ground if they had cited the lower estimate and used a percentage, rather than a raw job number based on the high estimate.

Nearly a half-century of social science research shows that taking logs of your employees' wages to calculate the pay gap results in a more accurate model than using their dollar wages, as it lets you measure effects that increase salary by a given percentage, rather than by a given dollar amount.

It also showed an increase in the percentage of muscle fibres that stained with an antibody against dystrophin (although the use of fibre percentage, rather than a quantitative assessment of the amount of functional dystrophin probably exaggerates the apparent magnitude of the effect).

The concept dates back to the days of sabermetrics — early analysis of nontraditional statistics that brought names like Bill James into the lexicon, and its use of "WAR" (wins above replacement) and emphasis on OBP (on-base percentage) rather than traditional measures of a player's value, such as batting average and runs batted in.

When I used to drink more often about two years ago I was drinking three nights a week—I would often find myself choosing beers based on their alcohol percentage rather than taste.

Where data are missing, we report valid percentages, rather than absolute percentages.

His results were computed as percentages, rather than actual dollar values.

Berri, Mr. Schmidt, and Ms. Brook contend that the key statistic in valuing a player's contribution is field goal percentages rather than points scored.

The only problem is that it still shows your progress in terms of percentages rather than page numbers, which makes me feel like I'm downloading a book to my brain rather than reading it.

Again, the culprit is the use of percentages rather than actual numbers to represent risk and benefit.