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• Ten per cent. (8)
• About a hundred per cent. (9)
• It is said that 17 per cent. (20)
• A clear ten thousand per annum. (4)
• Lumber had gone up 373 per cent. (17)
• 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)
• Labor had also risen to 200 per cent. (17)
• It might involve a large sum per annum. (10)
• British ships have paid from 71 to 82 per cent. (20)
• About six bushels per acre is considered enough. (17)
• Fifty per cent at least is off her value, socially. (8)
• They do not make above the usual ninety-five per cent. (9)
• Apparently he named the cost of his purchase per dozen. (10)
• The descent from an altitude of fifty to five per cent. (10)
• 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 out of that you pay me ten per cent., if I get it through for you. (8)
• A mere eight hundred or thousand per annum had no place in that midst. (10)
• 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)
• In fact, 90 per cent of the houses erected to-day use wooden studs and floor beams. (17)
• Sheet lead weighing 5 to 6 pounds per square foot is often used for counter-flashing. (17)
• He felt as though someone had threatened his right to invest his money at five per cent. (8)
• Thus five thousand pounds invested would speedily bring five thousand pounds per annum. (10)
• This often leads to discounts of from 15 to 30 per cent on second mortgages and contracts. (17)
• The couple of bottles per diem prognosticates disintegration, with its accompanying recklessness. (10)
• The amount of heat lost per hour is, of course, the quantity which the heating system must supply. (17)
• If not that, he proposes that the author shall pay for the stereotype plates, and take fifteen per cent. (9)
• If you want to throw away money, you must just find some better investment than those wretched 3 per cents. (8)
• The average fall per mile is also much greater in this part of the river than it is from Ulm to this point. (20)
• It would be interesting to see what was the total cost per year to repaint them and keep the roofs in order. (17)
• No sand should contain more than 3 per cent by weight of loam or clay or 1 per cent of mica. (17)
• Patrick hummed a bar or two of an air, to hint of his being fanatico per la musica, as a pretext for their departure. (10)
• 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)
• In the construction of gravel walks the grade should be kept to within 12 feet in 100 feet and be crowned ¼ inch per foot. (17)
• The name was a possession, a concrete, unstained piece of property, the value of which would be reduced some twenty per cent. (8)
• It is said that they were reduced to four ounces of bread per day, and sought in the gutters of Quebec to appease their hunger. (19)
• Knowing the quantity of heat lost per hour, a radiator must be installed which will supply this amount per hour. (17)
• 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)
• Over the roofing-boards should be tacked asphalt roofing felt, weighing not less than 30 pounds per 100 square feet and lapping 2½ inches. (17)
• I saw that in their attentions to me, they thought they were winning the heir of Elton, the future proprietor of fifteen thousand per annum. (6)
• The die-away acid eyeballs-at-the-ceiling of a pair of fanatics per la musica might irritate a husband, but the lover should read and know. (10)
• The pitch of wooden-shingle roofs should not be less than 8 inches rise per foot for the ordinary weathering shown in the above statements. (17)
• They had never had any fears before Van Diemen arrived, and caused them to give thrice their ordinary number of dinners to guests per annum. (10)
• The squire promised her fifty pounds per annum in quarterly payments, that she might buy what presents she liked, and so tie herself to constancy. (10)
• 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)
• She obtained permission to keep the letter, with the intention of transmitting it per post to an advertising interpreter of character in caligraphy. (10)
• 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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