Sentence examples for some percentage points from inspiring English sources

While they may lose some percentage points in their growth rates, they still should be able to reach 6% to 8% growth annually.

I am sure it's not Obama himself, but whoever ran the fundraising racket must still be getting some percentage points and is so inebriated with how much the campaign raised that he or she may want to stop.

Even if the rate of functional decline will keep on dropping by some percentage points into the future, the impact of demographic change (i.e. the numerical increase in the size of the aged population over the next 30 years) will lead to even larger numbers of people in need of complex care.

Busted convertibles then yielded some 7.2 percentage points more than Treasuries.

Participation in the labour force, at 41%, is some 20 percentage points below America's.

This suggests that a 10% drop would shave some 0.6 percentage points off economic growth.

The second-placed candidate came in some 30 percentage points behind.

In Apurímac and Ayacucho, poverty rates actually increased by some ten percentage points compared with 2004.

Support for the prime minister had jumped some 10 percentage points following the appointment of a new cabinet last Monday.

President Hamid Karzai holds a commanding lead of 55.4percentt, some 39 percentage points over his nearest rival, former Education Minister Muhammad Yunus Qanooni.

The annual rate of profit growth was 21.2%, some six percentage points higher than people had expected.