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• Ten per cent. (8)
• About a hundred per cent. (9)
• It is said that 17 per cent. (20)
• Lumber had gone up 373 per cent. (17)
• But I need every cent I can make. (13)
• Compound interest at five per cent. (8)
• Up-keep, usually about 1½ per cent. (17)
• He knew nothing of her ten per cent. (10)
• They vowed to her that ten per cent. (10)
• For their part they anticipated cent. (10)
• Labor had also risen to 200 per cent. (17)
• British ships have paid from 71 to 82 per cent. (20)
• Fifty per cent at least is off her value, socially. (8)
• They do not make above the usual ninety-five per cent. (9)
• The descent from an altitude of fifty to five per cent. (10)
• The people pay more than a cent for their penny papers. (16)
• The sixty per cent was represented by various politicians. (16)
• He would confess that the present dividend of four per cent. (8)
• But if he fully believes in the book, he will give ten per cent. (9)
• And here am I without a cent in the world; and my wife is an invalid. (9)
• The interest charged is from 6 per cent to 8 per cent. (17)
• The twenty-one whom they produced were now getting barely three per cent. (8)
• Uncle Harry is raging, and wants me to promise him not to let her have a cent. (13)
• In fact, 90 per cent of the houses erected to-day use wooden studs and floor beams. (17)
• He felt as though someone had threatened his right to invest his money at five per cent. (8)
• Why, the old man Jackson left pretty nearly every cent of his money to found this school. (13)
• This often leads to discounts of from 15 to 30 per cent on second mortgages and contracts. (17)
• If not that, he proposes that the author shall pay for the stereotype plates, and take fifteen per cent. (9)
• No sand should contain more than 3 per cent by weight of loam or clay or 1 per cent of mica. (17)
• In the spring of 1922 this same house cost $9,502.00 to build, which was about 71 per cent over that of pre-war prices. (17)
• The owner should carry a fire insurance on the entire building and materials to at least 80 per cent of the total value. (17)
• The name was a possession, a concrete, unstained piece of property, the value of which would be reduced some twenty per cent. (8)
• On examination of the insurance reports upon this question, we find that 96 per cent of all the fires originate inside of the houses. (17)
• In 1914 this house cost $5,529.00, but at the peak of prices in 1920 this house cost $12,815.00, which was an increase of 131 per cent. (17)
• An expensive addition of 2 per cent of barium carbonate to the mortar will tend to fix the soluble salts which cause this efflorescence. (17)
• One western state, for instance, has newspaper men for one third of its state officers and forty per cent of its delegation in Congress. (16)
• If raw linseed-oil is used, and it is necessary to shorten the time required for drying, some good drier should be added, say 5 per cent. (17)
• Tiles for use in outer walls should be hard-burned, free from cracks, straight, and should not show a greater absorption of water than 10 per cent. (17)
• The editorial articles seem to have offered them few attractions, but news items of one sort or another engaged seventy-five per cent of their attention. (16)
• This commission differs, according to the locality, ranging from 1 to 4 per cent on first mortgages, and from 5 per cent upward on second mortgages. (17)

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Definition of cent:

• cent, sent, n. a hundred: an american coin | the hundredth part of a dollar. | ns. cent’age, rate by the hundred; cent’al, a weight of 100 lb. proposed for general adoption, legalised in 1878. | per cent., by the hundred. (0)

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