| 单词 | percent |
| 例句 | Does the figure mean that for exactly the same jobs that men perform, women earn 59 percent of the men’s salaries? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. Something like that might ruin everything. If we keep it as casual as possible, no one will give us a second glance. People don’t pay attention to ninety percent of what they see.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But when subjects thought that there were four others also overhearing the seizure, they came to the student’s aid only 31 percent of the time. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I go to bed every night, and look at myself in the mirror every morning, knowing I caused an accident that was one hundred percent preventable. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Only 5 percent of the drivers on the road were African American or Latino, but more than 80 percent of the people stopped and searched were minorities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Our chances of escaping lung disease may be 95 percent; dementia, 90 percent; cancer, 80 percent; and heart disease, 75 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Only 3 5 percent of total fixations fell on the letters. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is estimated that 95 percent of them come to Birmingham specifically to tour the Institute. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Please, can I just show you what I’m talking about? It’s important to me. Then I’m one hundred percent grounded,” I say, crossing an X over my heart. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z To put that number into perspective, if we took that new 2.4 percent figure and applied it to today’s population of 313.3 million, the result would be about 7.5 million soldiers and sailors killed. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z But in Baltimore City, where Northern High School was located, it was a dismal 38 percent. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The current best estimate for Earth’s weight is 5.9725 billion trillion metric tons, a difference of only about 1 percent from Cavendish’s finding. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Ninety-seven percent of him was under the surface. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But a Treasury spokesman, Taylor Griffin, said the income tax system is more progressive if the measurement is the share borne by the top 40 percent of Americans rather than the top 0.1 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Polls put his approval rating at just 36 percent. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Nothing in physics prevents you from traveling as close to the speed of light as you like; 99.9 percent of the speed of light would be just fine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “From a restaurant supply place. They’re only charging us 10 percent down.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In July 1986, the nation’s rig count hit an all-time low of 663, some 85 percent fewer than the high it had hit less than five years earlier. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Left to their own devices, the doctors guessed right on the most serious patients somewhere between 75 and 89 percent of the time. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The survival rate is around 90 percent for those who discover it early. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Over 90 percent of the energy coming from the stars is blocked out by our atmosphere and never reaches the ground. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It just means you run three minutes at 80 percent speed, and one minute full-out. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Save me fifteen percent on my car insurance!” shouted someone else. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z In that study, 60 percent of viewers who saw a story with no image falsely recalled seeing one, and 70 percent of those viewers believed the perpetrator to be African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was testing the chicken of a new vendor; so far it tasted the same and cost ten percent less. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Federal law provides that a child-support enforcement officer can garnish up to 65 percent of an individual’s wages for child support. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A 2012 report from Symantec, a company that builds software to block computer viruses, found that around 67 percent of email is spam. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He was robbing these folks blind, charging them a hundred percent markup on his cheap goods, and he was worried about them stealing from him! The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And 44 percent of the time, the two pilots have never flown together before, so they’re not comfortable with each other. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But we could not know which was the case, so there was no choice, scientifically, but to regard the cat as 100 percent alive and 100 percent dead at the same time. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z What he should have said is that it takes twenty- three people to be 50 percent certain that there is some birthday in common, not any particular birth day such as March 19. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She was warning that the chance of rain was 80 percent, so it was a good night to stay inside. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Wes didn’t act up in class, which kept him under the radar; his teachers spent 90 percent of their time dealing with the 5 percent of kids who did. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z According to Icelandic law, a wife receives 100 percent of her husband’s estate if there are no children and only one-third if there is one child or more. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I know. But it wasn’t a hundred percent my fault.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Nationally, Virginia’s white teachers ranked in the bottom quarter in public school salaries, and their black counterparts might earn almost 50 percent less. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z With them he deduced the circumference of the Earth with an error of only a few percent, a remarkable achievement for 2,200 years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even as young as I am, I have always felt as if I live 80 percent of my life in deja vu. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Typically they have an albedo, or reflectiveness, of just 4 percent about the same as a lump of charcoal–and of course these lumps of charcoal are about four billion miles away. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z They were way less famous than the other great apes, the chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, even though a recent study showed they were our closest relatives, sharing over 98.7 percent of our DNA. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Seventy percent of the Eastern European Jews who came through Ellis Island in the thirty years or so before the First World War had some kind of occupational skill. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “I know. You are one hundred percent right. I’m sorry.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I’d say it’s twenty-five percent blame for the kids, twenty-five percent blame for the parents, twenty-five percent blame for the building, and twenty-five percent blame for the environment—that equals a hundred percent failure! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z More than 40 percent of the white babies are given names that are at least four times more common among whites. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Loganville was more than 90 percent white, and there wasn’t so much as a suntan on the faces of the Liberty Fire or their parents. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The surprising answer is that, with probability better than 99 percent, you did just inhale such a molecule. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Nationally, 58 percent of all incarcerated African American youths are serving their time in adult prisons. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “It counts for forty percent of your overall,” Tiara said as she practiced a circle turn in place. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z To the astonishment of the city’s ruling class, 78 percent of the 681 delegates to the Democratic convention voted for Harrison on the first ballot. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In 1983, a year after the implementation of court-ordered desegregation, the proportion of white students was 59 percent and that of Hispanics 36 percent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In the study, parents interacted with their children 68 percent of the time when the television was off and 54 percent of the time when it was on. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It’s working—the amount needed to kill fifty percent of the population is increasing, meaning it’s becoming less effective. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I’m almost 100 percent sure Drake hasn’t, either. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z The student body of the school was nearly 100 percent black, reflecting the racial makeup of the neighborhoods to the west. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z At least, I figured, with five players instead of four, my odds were 5 percent better of not receiving the consequence. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Every time that an animal eats a plant or another animal, the conversion of food biomass into the consumer’s biomass involves an efficiency of much less than 100 percent: typically around 10 percent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z African Americans constituted only 15 percent of current drug users in 1995, and they constitute roughly the same percentage today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As sisters, they probably have closer to 99 percent in common, but they’re not about to recognize that. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Even relative freedom from fallout, well short of the 95 percent cleanliness Strauss and the scientists had mentioned, could be achieved only from reducing yields. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And definitely don’t attach a figure to the damage: The earthquake decimated seventy-five percent of Morticia’s antiques. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think I told you, but she, uh. Well, when she fired me, she told me that if I wasn’t a thousand percent serious about you, I needed to break things off.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Maybe part of me wonders if I’m even gay, though only an hour ago, I was about 99.9 percent sure. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z African Americans made up 56 percent of the inmate population, Hispanics comprised another 32 percent, and whites around 10 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even more, I wanted to argue that no one could possibly know that everything would be fine, not 100 percent without a doubt for sure. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z At this bush meeting we agreed in principle on a five-year government of national unity in which all parties polling over 5 percent in a general election would be proportionally represented in the cabinet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m 100 percent certain she has not been waiting for me to go to dances, and I wonder what she’ll say when I ask. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Now, what if we were content to be just 50 percent certain of this? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Eighty percent were from the New York City area. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The city’s 80 percent unemployment rate, a result of the Great Depression, had led factory managers to reduce wages and inspired thousands of citizens to support the strikers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z She probably had a stronger familiarity with the window cat she passed on her way there than she did with 99 percent of the kids at Booker. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Yet the U.S. incarceration rate quadrupled, the Finnish rate fell by 60 percent, and the German rate was stable in that period. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But then he admitted that there was uncertainty on this point; the number could be as low as 15 percent or as high as 80 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z However, the conditional probability that the card is a face card given that it’s a king is 1, or 100 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The defection rate shot up to 34 percent among those Democrats who believed civil rights leaders were pushing “too fast.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A longtime telecommunications analyst named Kevin Roe told the paper that 75 percent or more of wireless company revenue came from drivers well into the 1990s. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But he must’ve been one hundred percent mortal, because the blade passed harmlessly right through his chest. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The Nazi Party pressured teachers for 100 percent Hitler Youth membership, and the teachers, in turn, pressured the students to join. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The remainder just sat there, reminding everyone how far short we had fallen of the 10 percent of the membership— about seventy people—required for a quorum. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ninety-five percent of school is a complete waste of time.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z When I am positively, absolutely, one hundred percent sure ten minutes have passed, I check my watch. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “And like...not to brag, but I can do ninety percent of the work in there with my eyes closed and a hand tied behind my back.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z “Hercules fought ninety-nine percent of everything in Ancient Greece.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The pro-republic sentiment won with 52 percent of the vote, and the proclamation of the republic was set for May 31,1961. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I could go further, I still have 15 percent battery power or so, but I want to get as much daylight on my solar cells as I can. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Today 10 percent of the world’s population suffers from malaria every year, resulting in almost three million deaths. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Later I found out that Mother’s health tonic, her Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for Women, was nearly 20 percent alcohol. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Aristide walked away with 67 percent of the vote and wasted no time promising to deal with the vast inequalities of his country. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z This time around, the observers’ ratings predicted with better than 80 percent accuracy which marriages were going to make it. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The final outcome of the Chicago study is further testament to the power of incentives: the following year, cheating by teachers fell more than 30 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Did you know seventy-eight percent of the winners of the talent show have also gone on to win Insomnia Con?” she said, pausing the laptop to adjust her headband. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Knowing that was 80 percent of surviving with Steve as your neighbor. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Similarly, a California study reported that an estimated 30 to 50 percent of individuals under parole supervision in San Francisco and Los Angeles were homeless. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In addition, 90 percent of the shares in 24/7 are owned by U.S. investors. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z I saw a movie once where a woman was burned over eighty percent of her body and they had to wash all the dead skin off. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Eye was able to look around confidently: ninety-five percent of his eyesight was blocked out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z In those situations, they did the “right” thing 92 percent of the time. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Maddy busted out laughing, white mush in her mouth, and I was right behind her, my laughter scrubbing away the last 10 percent of sad in me. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z When they were discovered, she was interrogated by police until she acknowledged that she couldn't be 100 percent sure the infant hadn't moved before death, even though the premature delivery made viability extremely unlikely. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She agreed with me 100 percent about the Eucharist thing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Black Africans, who generally lived on only 5 percent of the nation’s land, made up over 80 percent of the population. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Dogs are being adopted 11 percent faster in December than in any other month. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The largest unmentioned and presumably excluded constituency was the black population, about 90 percent of which was enslaved. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “It’s like babies need us one hundred percent of the time, so everything we do feels like the right thing, somehow,” he says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z According to the New York Times, nearly 20 percent of suicides are committed by poison, but among doctors who kill themselves, that number is 57 percent. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She thought to ask him if he knew the subindex of his “other” component, because 20 percent was pretty high, but if he didn’t know, the question would embarrass him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Fully 70 percent of men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five in the impoverished and overwhelmingly black North Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side are saddled for life with a criminal record. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I’m ninety percent sure the odds are in my favor. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I reckon he thinks they’d get him on the usury law if he netted more than eight percent. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In the previous fifteen years, violent crime had risen 80 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I don’t think I have ever done something I know one hundred percent is going to land me in a whole heap of stinky trouble. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z I checked all the connections and made sure there wasn't any dust on them, but they still just aren't 100 percent. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Tune your television to any channel it doesn’t receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The New York bookies were having a tough time trying to find anyone willing to put a few bucks on Seabiscuit; 95 percent of the wagers were on War Admiral. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. But the one percent could leave you a vegetable, Tally.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “For your information, I got it at the state fair last week, and the man said it had a ninety-nine percent success rate for helping people discover their Talents within one year.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Which is so completely one hundred percent unfair but she says, This is the difference between being a grown-up and being a child. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z From a few incidents in which before and after totals are known with relative certainty, Dobyns calculated that in the first 130 years of contact about 95 percent of the people in the Americas died. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As soon as Carl drew his gun, he realized it was 130 percent the wrong thing to have done. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But our guarantees could not be 100 percent reliable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To begin with, it was discovered that one of the basic components of Libby’s formula, known as the decay constant, was off by about 3 percent. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But Paul Feldman sides with Socrates and Adam Smith—for he knows that the answer, at least 87 percent of the time, is yes. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Only 26 percent supported his handling of the war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “You know, I’m ninety-eight percent sure the queen would’ve knighted that guy had he not died so young, may his soul rest in peace.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z What if the choices are either a sure loss of $30,000 or an 80 percent chance of losing $40,000 and a 20 percent chance of losing nothing? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Maryland studies produced similar results: African Americans comprised only 17 percent of drivers along a stretch of I-95 outside of Baltimore, yet they were 70 percent of those who were stopped and searched. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Thirty-five percent is a number that keeps my mom up at night. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z I’m only being about twenty percent sarcastic, but Mr. Black says, “Thank you, Mr. Finch,” in a way that means the direct opposite of thank you. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z His win percentage dropped to a lamentable 6 percent. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I think my mom might have been pretty once, but the years devoured her youth, beauty, and enthusiasm for anything with an alcohol content of less than 12 percent. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z So all we know is that the universe is expanding by between 5 percent and 10 percent every thousand million years. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Raise the value very slightly–to 0.008 percent–and bonding would be so wildly prolific that the hydrogen would long since have been exhausted. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Seventeen percent of kids age six through nineteen are obese. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z My phone’s battery is dying, down close to thirty percent, and I want to make sure the hospital can reach me in case my dad wakes up. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z So far, then, for our planet fL is less than 1/108, a millionth of a percent. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, my brain was at 100 percent imagining spending a weekend with Annie at her house. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He knew that Ana would be 100 percent in favor of the adoption, and he didn’t want her to sway him. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “Since you’re an epidemiologist,” I said, “did you know that seventy percent of household dust is actually composed of human epidermal matter?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Twenty-eight percent of the women on the site said they were blond, a number far beyond the national average, which indicates a lot of dyeing, or lying, or both. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Referring to a poll that said 85 percent of all Arkansas’s people opposed integration, Governor Orval Faubus announced his refusal to support the integration of our state’s schools. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We only use ten percent of our brains.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I found nearly three million Americans had served “in country,” almost 10 percent of their generation. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z About 47 percent of American families say they still eat together every night. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Jennifer had a one hundred percent crush on Paul McCartney, so Anthony was kind of up there. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Between 15 percent and 30 percent of feedlot cattle have damaged livers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Most of the displaced white students have found somewhere to go to school. Like ninety percent or so.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you passed your exam with three hundred and twenty percent!” said Ron. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z A World Bank study found that 42.5 percent of Mexicans live on two dollars or less a day. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Of the 352 men who worked on the bridge’s notorious east caisson, pressure-related illness killed twelve, left two crippled for life, and injured sixty-six others, a casualty rate of over 20 percent. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z If eight of the hundred we capture are marked, then a reasonable estimate of the fraction of marked fish in the whole lake is 8 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Just twenty-one miles of it—less than 1 percent of the total—are on public roads, mostly on bridges and where it passes through towns. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z A big 35 percent practically sitting on my chest. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z More than 70 percent of all criminal cases in the Chicago area involve a class D felony drug possession charge, the lowest-level felony charge. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Everyone is also entitled to performance bonuses that allow them to earn, in certain cases, the equivalent of 100 percent of their base salary. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The idea was to preserve the status quo where three million whites owned 87 percent of the land, and relegate the eight million Africans to the remaining 13 percent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In many urban areas, the gap is far worse, rising to more than 37 percent in places like New York City. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This is an intriguing statistic: the same people who routinely steal more than 10 percent of his bagels almost never stoop to stealing his money box—a tribute to the nuanced social calculus of theft. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Not that I have ever felt 100 percent competent in the writing business, where one day’s success augurs nothing at all for the next. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If I'd ever be as careful over anything as he is to keep his little shirt tail full of business from making him more than eight percent. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Costumes like this should be outlawed from any place where the humidity is greater than 10 percent. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She had to pay back every penny, plus six percent extra for interest. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z You said in ’93 that only about five or six percent of our class would not make it. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Captain Short wasn’t a hundred percent yet, and there was also the small matter of the thing digging into her ankle. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Emily, James, and Matthew would split 10 percent of the royalties earned from the sale of the book, to be deposited into a scholarship fund for each of them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts reports that prison populations in at least ten states are expected to increase by 25 percent or more between 2006 and 2011. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Seeing as how we wanted to make sure it was a hundred percent right.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I reach 100 percent, that means I'm completely south of the storm and I can start going east again. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Shortly thereafter, a New York Times/CBS News Poll reported that 64 percent of those polled—the highest percentage ever recorded—now thought that drugs were the most significant problem in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z His only problem is the fact that MaiVs car has about a 5 percent chance of starting first time round. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He says it’s all about control and endurance, but I suspect it has more to do with the fact that his lung capacity is 20 percent larger than the average person’s. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I make a note to myself to be sad, and even mad, but not one hundred percent angry at the world. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The bald figure released merely stated that the median income of full-time women workers was 59 percent of that for men. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought the new combination sounded incredibly cool, so I started playing around with it until I was landing the skill 95 percent of the time. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Craig, like eighty percent of the people I know are on medication. For ADD or whatever.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Admissions quotas set by the Chicago school board called for a student body that would be 40 percent black, 40 percent white, and 20 percent Hispanic or other. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I’m one hundred percent sure the cars in the driveway belong to King Lords and Garden Disciples. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The atmosphere inside the spacecraft was 100 percent oxygen, instead of normal air, which is only 20 percent oxygen. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Of those, the counselors say, 75 percent are looking for their mothers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “So, Haymitch, what do you think of the Games having one hundred percent more competitors than usual?” asks Caesar. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “You said you’re ninety-nine percent sure these pills will work, right?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He’s so cute, my lung function feels like it dropped another 10 percent. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z In social studies I scored ninety-nine percent on the final test on the United States Constitution. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z He gave them a 30 percent chance of prevailing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But of those who did vote, 96 percent supported suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z If they share it 50 percent of the time, then the concordance is 0.5. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z One recent study indicates that the elimination of race-based admissions policies would lead to a 63 percent decline in black matriculants at all law schools and a 90 percent decline at elite law schools. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Shanti was weak from hunger, but she didn’t like going into situations in which she was not one hundred percent in charge. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z After a week of testing, flight surgeon Robert Secrest told Jerrie that not only had she passed, but she had scored in the top 2 percent of all astronaut test candidates. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Joel says the chickens get about 20 percent of their diet from the fresh grass, worms, grasshoppers, and crickets they find. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A feather spell was a level two point five, which was probably above what Spares were capable of, although Seven wasn’t 100 percent sure what all the specific limitations were. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The jobless rate for young black male dropouts, including those incarcerated, is a staggering 65 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He found that about half of all the cases came, essentially, from four neighborhoods representing about 6 percent of the geographic area of the city. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, his mother was in the other 10 percent. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In addition, more than 52 percent of the shootouts between extremists and police now involve white extremists. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Of the 30,000 people who live in the Links’ census tract, 75 percent were born outside Georgia. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In 1850, New England was 70 percent open farmland and 30 percent woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Susan B. Anthony can’t shoot 90 percent from the line,” Mom said. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z A recent, much more conservative estimate is that it covers .1 to .3 percent of the basin, a few thousand square miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z By the beginning of 2015, I knew the time was approaching, time for me focus 100 percent of my energy on Olympic qualification. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I’m not able to work now because of my liver—I only have about thirty percent of my liver left from drinking. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Pew report, done in cooperation with several other nonprofit groups, found that nearly 90 percent of teachers said the Internet is creating “an easily distracted generation with short attention spans.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z No one knows for sure, but local doctors think that as many as 30 percent of all men and women of childbearing age who live in the vicinity of Mount Elgon are infected with hiv. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And in another 45 percent of families, parents consumed five hours of screen time per day. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The difference is that things burn much more rapidly in 100 percent oxygen, and within seconds the inside of their spacecraft was filled with smoke and flames. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We won 33 percent of the vote in the western Cape, which was won by the National Party, which did extremely well among Coloured voters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z About 90 percent of those sentenced to prison for a drug offense in Illinois are African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Yet the productivity of the German beer industry is only 43 percent that of the U.S. beer industry. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While mortality rates for yellow fever varied widely, it was not unusual for it to kill 50 percent of those who contracted it. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Some 85 percent of the blacks who lived in Ector County and attended high school went there, and so did 44 percent of the county’s Hispanics. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That rate is much higher than observed for hunter-gatherer populations but is easily attained by farmers: Kenya’s population is now growing at 4.5 percent per year. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The original Native American population has been reduced by a debated large percentage: estimates for North America range up to 95 percent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He might like my descriptions of what I’ve seen on Sagan, but he’s known nothing but this ship for ninety percent of his life. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z One survivor said that ten percent of the city’s population died, while another estimated that ten percent had fled the city in search of food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z With clear skies, I dedicate 80 percent of my total power toward movement. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He could have been Gogol only fifty percent of the time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In the 1920s, some 80 percent of black Durham residents lived in substandard housing, a figure that remained unchanged in the Hayti area four decades later. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “The ten percent is standard, so extras always help. The other bidders probably don’t have a beautiful daughter.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “I do know. You are one hundred percent human.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Each week, he gives police officers who patrol the river a 10 percent cut of his earnings as a smuggler. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Fifty-six percent of the users were men, and the median age range for all users was twenty-one to thirty-five. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z If our school had become a place for hate, that was 100 percent my doing. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Applicant 2: “I have passed my SSC with distinction. Second P also with distinction. And I also hold a 70 percent aggregate in previous two years.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z And if you are told that you have 10 percent chance of dying within the next minute, you’ll probably panic. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “But Lily says you only saved ten percent of my brain. True?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I’ve done the calculations and have figured out that from the ages of thirteen to fifteen, I’ve spent about forty-five percent of my life grounded. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Ninety-nine percent of the time, it’s easier to use a tiny bit of common sense. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I’m not 100 percent sure how I feel about that. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “I don’t see that it makes much difference. They’ll still be one hundred percent as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Remarkably effective, the boycott reduced sales between 15 and 20 percent for a total loss to the targeted businesses of around a million dollars. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z For American twelfth graders, the comparable figure was 54 percent. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In June, however, the results of another examination by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency showed that 39 percent of all of First National Bank’s loans were in trouble. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The harpies washed with lava instead of water, to get that extra-dean sparkle and kill ninety-nine point nine percent of all germs, so Annabeth and I had to wear asbestos gloves and aprons. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z In their harsh light, I am sure it shows that I am not one hundred percent certain I should be doing what I am doing. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Ninety percent of visitors arrive in cars or motor homes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Staying because of ten percent and all I hope it might be. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Checking my arm readouts, I saw the suit was now at 85 percent oxygen. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In 52 percent of crashes, the pilot at the time of the accident has been awake for twelve hours or more, meaning that he is tired and not thinking sharply. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In the real world, Feldman learned to settle for less than 95 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Only 2 percent of the workers in the U.S.-led project were hospitalized at any one time, compared with 30 percent for the French. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Their lives had been exceedingly difficult and their relationship with the government was strained: nearly a quarter of the men and thirty-seven percent of the women said family members had died of hunger. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In 91 percent of these cases, judges replaced life verdicts from juries with death sentences. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Their English teacher, who had been reading aloud from a textbook, interrupted himself to say that he had the attention of 70 percent of the class, and that 70 percent was a “dismal figure.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Seventy-six percent of all fixations were on the letters. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For starters, despite the fact that black people made up over 80 percent of South Africa’s population, the territory allocated for the homelands was about 13 percent of the country’s land. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “The swastikas at our school are one hundred percent real.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Based on his recent symptoms and—wow—a twenty-two percent drop in his weight since last time, there is indeed a strong possibility that Sir Fig Newton has diabetes.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z If a black person says diverse neighborhood, they are thinking forty percent black. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z South of the Potomac was a different matter altogether, since approximately 90 percent of the total black population resided there. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But when the number of professionals dropped below 5 percent, the problems exploded. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ll cut you in for ten percent if you let us go!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Before they scanned my brain, before they removed my ten percent, did I hear someone at the hospital talking? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Therefore I reject my hypothesis that 15 percent of the cars in the region are Corvettes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven percent of the men conceded that they were married, with a significant minority of these men reporting that they were “happily married.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z A huge percent of the wealth created in America today comes not from manufacturing, but from providing services. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In order to qualify for Mensa membership, we'd need to score in the top 2 percent of any given one. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z A full 60 percent of Africa’s population at the time was under the age of twenty-five. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Despite missing more than half a year of school, I passed Form Four in the top one percent of the class. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z About 30 percent of his research over the years had focused on driving issues, but in the more recent years, it had been the bulk of his research. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Not being killed in a car accident may be 99 percent certain, while 98 percent of us may avoid perishing in a household accident. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One study indicates that as late as 1970, more than 70 percent of all blacks working in metropolitan areas held blue-collar jobs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Maggie met me at the front door wearing a Rockport High School T-shirt that looked like it had belonged to Fred’s dad and a pair of shorts that showed 98 percent of her compact legs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Trapper thought it might take Boobie as long as two years to rehabilitate, and he still didn’t know anyone who had ever come back 100 percent from it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If it weren’t that volunteers from the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club maintain 80 percent of the park’s trails, including the whole of the AT through the park, the situation would be much worse. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The Antarctic contains ninety percent of the world’s snow and ice, and there are more than eighty kinds of it. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z We were sure—I mean, one thousand percent certain—that they’d open the valve and drop the end of that hose into the water. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z It requires a large number of people, 253 to be exact, to be 50 percent certain that someone in the group has March 19 as his or her birthday. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know. I know. But I believe you a hundred percent. I think she would too.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t say that. But let me add that B positive is a relatively rare blood type. Statistically rare. Ten percent of Caucasian males, at best.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z "I could get by with maybe twenty percent of what's left." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z "The total sunlight reaching the surface is very low in the area of the storm. Right now, it's twenty percent of normal. And Watney's rover is powered by solar panels." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Whites comprised a mere 8 percent of people frisked by the NYPD, while African Americans accounted for 85 percent of all frisks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Dozens of cities in the United States are now following suit, pledging to use 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 or sooner. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “You can make a case that the upper half lives as well as the upper 5 percent did fifty years ago.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But when he finished the quiz and that 90 percent glared tauntingly at him from the score report page? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Doe was a member of the Krahn tribe, a tiny ethnic group that composed just 4 percent of the population, far less than the larger tribes in Liberia, the Gio and the Mano. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “You just made five out of ten from the line. Fifty percent.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The New York-based firm Media Dynamics estimates that the average American is now exposed to 254 different commercial messages in a day, up nearly 25 percent since the mid- 1970s. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The atmosphere of Venus is composed of 96 percent carbon dioxide. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m not one hundred percent certain, but I did overhear Mr. Espinosa and Jenny talking....” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Seventy-two percent of Colorado voters had approved an eight-hour workday, but the mine owners ignored them and paid Pinkerton detectives to incite violence and blame it on the strikers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z My harness might break, even though I feel one hundred percent secure. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z When the air gets to 1 percent C02, you start getting symptoms of poisoning. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was 96 percent black, but it wasn’t in the inner city, and most of its students did not come from deprived backgrounds but from middle-class ones. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He melts actual bars of baking chocolate and uses whole “one hundred percent of the fat” milk. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Men could weigh in on the issue, too, and they were less supportive: Almost 70 percent of the men who voted opposed female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Cumulative mortalities of these previously unexposed peoples from Eurasian germs ranged from 50 percent to 100 percent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So defendants like Walter McMillian, even in counties that were 40 or 50 percent black, frequently found themselves staring at all-white juries, especially in death penalty cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In 1988 whites made up 69 percent and Hispanics 23 percent of the student body. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But I was definitely not more than 2 percent jealous. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Woods has guessed that terra preta might represent as much as to percent of the Amazon basin, an area the size of France. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Reagan’s racially coded rhetoric and strategy proved extraordinarily effective, as 22 percent of all Democrats defected from the party to vote for Reagan. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “It was all determined by your platoon leader, who 99 percent of the time was white,” said Allen. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z A 1993 survey found that 13 percent of jockeys suffered concussions over a period of just four months. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But if you are told that you have a 10 percent chance of dying within the next year, you might worry a lot more, perhaps even choosing to live your life differently. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Even among prisoners on death row, the annual execution rate is only 2 percent—compared with the 7 percent annual chance of dying faced by a member of the Black Gangster Disciple Nation crack gang. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z After all, in England itself only 3 percent of the population had the right to vote. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z California’s Proposition 21 was approved by 62 percent of the voters in March 2000. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z By twelfth grade, 70 percent of reading is to consist of nonfiction. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Thus, 99 percent of the Earth’s atmosphere is of biological origin. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The only reason I wasn't a hundred percent sure is because he didn't have on no gold or diamonds. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Percy understood about ten percent of Leo’s story, but he decided it was enough since he had a more pressing question. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But in their approach to the scene they were terrible, scoring just 15 percent. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Almost 80 percent of the fuel burned is used to process food and move it around. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Beginning in 1616, the pestilence took at least three years to exhaust itself and killed as much as 90 percent of the people in coastal New England. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Since that time, according to an article in the New York Times, bear attacks in North America have increased by 25 percent. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In the federal system, for example, homicide convictions account for 0.4 percent of the past decade’s growth in the federal prison population, while drug convictions account for nearly 61 percent of that expansion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Earthbound grows 80 percent of the organic lettuce sold in America. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z White men comprised 78 percent of the arrests for this offense in 1990 when new mandatory minimums governing drunk driving were being adopted. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Momma’s not a big fan of buying me stuff she’s not a hundred percent sure I need. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z At his doctor’s suggestion, Miele enrolled in a three- month monitored exercise program for heart disease patients, called cardiac rehab, which has been shown to reduce the mortality rate among heart patients by 20 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The fact that it's now in her possession doesn’t just make me wildly irresponsible, but one hundred percent culpable for whatever the hell she ends up doing with it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Fischer remained apparently unmoved: He wanted 30 percent of the gate receipts and was not traveling to Iceland unless his demands were met. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If a company habitually paid below 80 percent, Feldman might post a hectoring note, like this one: The cost of bagels has gone up dramatically since the beginning of the year. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Even in Texas, where nearly 40 percent of the nearly 1,400 modern-era executions in the United States had taken place, the death-sentencing rate had dropped dramatically, and the pace of executions had finally slowed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Hemoglobin is iron-containing protein that makes up 97 percent of every red blood cell's content, when dry. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z If twins share eye color 100 percent of the time, then the concordance is 1. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The handwriting wasn’t a hundred percent straight, but it wasn’t wavy. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I decided that even Mary did not need to be one hundred percent capable all the time. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And I would say the percentage of students who will end up making it from your class is probably fifty percent. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He turns his head toward the sound, but I’m 98 percent sure he doesn’t really see me. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Of the group that was, 10 percent stopped to help. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She had taken the long road to Langley’s Flight Research Division, but she knew with a confidence approaching 100 percent that she had arrived at the right destination. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Six percent are black, and 12 percent are Asian. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z One survey found that 53 percent of laboratories had stopped offering or developing at least one genetic test because of patent enforcement, and 67 percentfelt patents interfered with medical research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Some thirty universities were performing nuclear physics research on navy contracts, which in some cases accounted for 90 percent of their research budgets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I want you to know, I’m sure. A thousand percent.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I get it. Dark matter is twenty-seven percent of the universe, you said?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The prices of clothing, for example, have barely risen in the last decade, while department store prices in general fell 10 percent from 1994 to 2004, the federal government says. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z On the basis of the binomial probability distribution and the 1/12,000,000 figure, this probability can be determined to be about 8 percent—small, but certainly allowing for reasonable doubt. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s proportions were ninety per cent of Mrs. Hubbard’s to a soothing ten percent of the conductor’s. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not much to go on. No visual, not even a name. We can’t really be a hundred percent sure that we have a situation.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z "Ninety-seven point five percent is better than zero. Can anyone think of a safer way to get more time?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When I asked her what she meant, she said that in addition to her forty-dollar-a-week salary, she made 10 percent on every sale. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z About 80 percent of the country’s thirty million homes had a radio, about double those with a telephone. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Ninety-nine percent of humanity had had something done to their brains, and only a few people in the world knew exactly what. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The fact that he was one hundred percent right made me that much madder. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z But, for the record: Twenty-two percent of the world’s population sees ghosts—that’s over one and a half billion people worldwide. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Most importantly, almost everyone all over the world had these lesions. If they were a health hazard, ninety-nine percent of the population would show some kind of symptoms.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Indeed, he did so accurately, coming at least to within 10 percent of the modern polar measurement of about 24,860 miles, and perhaps as close as 1 percent. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z PIH traditionally used only about 5 percent of its donations for administration, with 95 percent going to patient care. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “You just need a chance to get in his vicinity, which you can one hundred percent do once you and Sahil become friends doing this whole movie thing.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Thirty years ago the city had been 84 percent white, Paul’d told me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Without consulting Burnham, Davis gave an estimate ten percent below the amount Burnham had calculated for President Baker, which Baker had then included in his own statement to investigators. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Sometimes I look out there, and I can’t believe it. Ocean water makes up seventy percent of the earth’s surface, you know.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z An office with a few dozen employees generally outpays by 3 to 5 percent an office with a few hundred employees. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z All that effort and sweat and disgusting grubbiness, all those endless plodding days, the nights on hard ground—all that added up to just 39.5 percent of the trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In the second stage, general elections would be held for a constituent assembly and legislature in which all political parties winning 5 percent or more of the vote would participate in the cabinet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The country was in the midst of a recession in the summer of 1980 and interest rates were close to 20 percent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z "Not really. I can't—I don't know what I was thinking. I'm not even a hundred percent sure of what I know." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Sumpweed, in particular, would have been a nutritionist’s ultimate dream, being 32 percent protein and 45 percent oil. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It has been estimated that 95 percent of Pipeline stops yield no illegal drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Before the Russian Revolution, about 80 percent of the population were peasants who worked in the fields like their medieval ancestors. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Even with all that effort the best you might hope for is ten or fifteen percent sympathetic link. Not very good, not very good at all. “This brings me to the second law, Consanguinity. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When such partly immune people came into contact with others who had had no previous exposure to the germs, epidemics resulted in which up to 99 percent of the previously unexposed population was killed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It hits Tremaine hard enough to make him reel backward, dropping his life bar by 15 percent. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z With the reduced load of only supporting one human instead of six, a 14 percent energy production loss is irrelevant. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Only 41 percent of low-income students entering a four- year college managed to graduate within five years, the U.S. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I think the real reason I had girlfriends was because I didn't one hundred percent believe I was gay. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “A’ight, I say it a lot. I may not have been one hundred percent right on all of this—” Momma coughs, but there’s a “Ha” hidden in it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Despite their efforts, the affected villages had a mean death rate of 8.8 percent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He is definitely, for sure, 100 percent going to say yes once she tells him. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Horses usually sleep in numerous brief sessions scattered throughout the day and night; about 20 percent of their daytime is spent snoozing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can you make a one hundred percent foolproof app that helps people find their soul mate?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I broke all the safeties and set it to pull 100 percent of the oxygen out. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But I don’t want to look like some high school kid skipping third period—even though that’s totally, 100 percent exactly what I am. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z A 2011 poll of Mississippi Republicans found that 46 percent support a legal ban on interracial marriage, 40 percent oppose such a ban, and 14 percent are undecided. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But if you believe this system effectively controls crime, consider this: standard estimates of the amount of crime reduction that can be attributable to mass incarceration range from 3 to 25 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He came to consider a company “honest” if its payment rate was above 90 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent of the pre-Columbian Native American population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “This slide project is going to count as twenty-five percent of your final grade so I want the slides labeled with your name, class, and—” My hands must have been sweaty. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Another 18.8 percent used formal means — advertisements, headhunters — and roughly 20 percent applied directly. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In matches between two supposedly corrupt wrestlers, the wrestler who was on the bubble won about 80 percent of the time. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Even at 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the speed of light, beings from nearby civilizations could have come during the tenure of humanity on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sixty percent of the two hundred young men who were recruited with him as guards were also the sons of intelligence officers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In more than a dozen states, student performance on standardized tests accounts for 50 percent of a teacher’s rating. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “We can’t. Okay? Don’t say it again. One hundred percent against the rules. Especially with the buggin’ Doors about to close.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z In this particular rural Southern community, the population was about 27 percent black, but African Americans made up only 10 percent of the jury pool. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The sun beat down, and the humidity was about two hundred percent, even stickier than in Houston. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Because it is one hundred percent the opposite of real life. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Now we’re walking in the Ida Bees, which is 50 percent boarded up. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But just as crime tends to be low on a street where a police car is parked, the 95 percent rate was artificially high: Feldman’s presence had deterred theft. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z That was the clincher right there, 99 percent of what you needed to know. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Sudan strain was more than twice as lethal as Marburg virus—its case-fatality rate was 50 percent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Carl to collect two hundred and fifty dollars every six months, June 30 and December 31, with six and a half percent interest figured annually. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Indenting the plane’s body inward along that joint reduced the drag dramatically and resulted in an increase of as much as 25 percent in the planes speed for the same level of power. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As of noon yesterday, the northernmost logger showed 12.3 percent efficiency loss, the middle one had a 9.5 percent loss, and the rover recorded a 6.4 percent loss at its southernmost location. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the rate of violent crime in the country is down 20 percent since 1991, the number of people in prison or jail has risen by 50 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think he’ll ever do what it takes to be one hundred percent.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Sarah Collins, Addie’s sister who survived the restroom blast, ended up losing her right eye and retained just 30 percent of the vision in her left eye. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “In fact, I’m one hundred percent sure that the breakup with Claire was my fault. I pushed her away.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z This was her way of showing she cared; she was 100 percent invested in this non-date. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Within a few years, their incomes rose 20 percent and their English improved greatly. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z For instance, “Q” is a rare letter in ordinary messages, but it makes up a whopping ten percent or so of this one. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m just thinking that there are certain things about your, um, lifestyle that would prevent you from giving one hundred percent here in the office.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z But he was getting a lot of mounts and winning with almost 10 percent of them, so he got by. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Of about 612,000 women who were eligible to vote in the referendum, only about 7 percent registered and only about 4 percent voted. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Even more striking, in the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Moreover, studies have shown that an unemployment decline of 1 percentage point accounts for a 1 percent drop in nonviolent crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Of course, the Americas in aggregate are anything but small: their combined area is fully 76 percent that of Eurasia, and their human population as of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One recent national survey found that about 75 percent of students enrolling in community colleges said they hoped to transfer to a four-year institution. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The 60 percent reason that I hold back has to do with something I’m 100 percent sure of: I can’t handle people thinking I come from a messed-up community. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Half of those in that 6 percent, in turn, were socializing in the same six bars. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Large plants and animals did not colonize the land until the last 10 percent of Earth history. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t tell her that she only helped 0.01 percent of the possible malaria victims. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I estimate I can get 50 percent higher yield by using these tactics. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In the one percent of the one percent. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Shaker took college seriously: the district had a ninety-nine percent graduation rate and virtually all the kids went on to college of some kind. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Normally she buys boxes of cards, marked fifty percent off at department stores in January, always forgetting, by the following winter, exactly where in the house she’s put them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “The only sea passage from the PersianGulf to the Gulf of Oman and then out to sea. Twenty-one percent of the world’s oil travels through the narrow passage.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z At last I gave him a smile and said with no irony: “Look, Tommy, it was an accident and it’s now one hundred percent forgotten. I don’t hold it against you one tiny bit.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Take instant messaging, which the 2004 report found to be in 60 percent of homes with children, but that hadn’t been in virtually any home five years earlier. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “There’s a ninety percent chance that this is from Harry & David,” I tell Ben on the elevator. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The famous Charge of the Light Brigade, in comparison, suffered casualties of approximately 40 percent. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It spends almost nothing—less than 3 percent of its budget—on research of any type, which is why no one knows how many mussels are extinct or even why they are going extinct. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z About 70 percent of the time, things are pretty normal for me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Eighty percent of all the housing stock in the country dates from 1945. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “And as easy as this, we have a sympathetic link that will work at thirty to thirty-five percent.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Even the Alacrans couldn’t strike out 100 percent of the time. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Because there’s no way a kid can grow up in an environment where ninety-three percent of the families are on some form of government assistance. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z McDonald’s says it’s okay if they have a 5 percent “error rate.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In just seven years, the woolly adelgid has fatally damaged more than 90 percent of the park’s hemlocks. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He’s 1,000 percent serious and pretty emotional about it too. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z By the end of 1993, the rate of property crime and violent crime, including homicides, had already fallen nearly 20 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z By the early 1900s, meatpacking had centralized: nearly 90 percent of all beef inspected east of the Rocky Mountains was processed by six big companies. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In 1936 the federal government had spent $33 million on research and development, accounting for 15 percent of the $218 million advanced by all sources, including industry, academia, and philanthropic foundations. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Does the ten percent of original brain really matter? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z For the first time since Jupiter and I “reconciled,” I decide to be 100 percent honest: “I can’t tell you what I want, Jupiter,” I say. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Tats 2: “So, two hundred percent into you, fifty percent nerdy, I guess that equals one hundred and fifty percent worthy.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z For example, chickpeas are widely grown by traditional farmers from the Mediterranean and Ethiopia east to India, with the latter country accounting for 80 percent of the world’s chickpea production today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “My lung function is down to thirty-five percent,” I say as I turn the camera back to me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Ifemelu showed her the bar, organic, one hundred percent whole grain with real fruit. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In the end, the World Bank members decided that the Ministry of Justice—the prisons—would get only 20 percent of the loan. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But of the people primed to be polite, the overwhelming majority—82 percent—never interrupted at all. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Only a third of one percent of Soviet women attended universities at this time, so the education level of many of Marina’s recruits was off the scale by ordinary standards. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Take care of my girl. She's 100 percent ordinary. Normal. Plain. Boring. Average.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z As a result, more than 90 percent of white South Africans go through a lifetime without seeing firsthand the inhuman conditions under which blacks have to survive. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z On top of that, probation officers in most states can require that an individual dedicate 35 percent of his or her income toward the payment of fines, fees, surcharges, and restitution charged by numerous agencies. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The result was that 98.4 percent of those serving life sentences under the provision were black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When improvements in typewriters eliminated the problem of jamming, trials in 1932 with an efficiently laid-out keyboard showed that it would let us double our typing speed and reduce our typing effort by 95 percent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I don't know either, but it's not 100 percent. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thirty-five percent is the best I can do. This is business.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In the South Bronx, only about 16 percent of all middle school students are performing at or above their grade level in math. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z And 99 percent of the time, they were all bluster and no balls. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z As noted earlier, at least 10 percent of Americans violate drug laws every year, and people of all races engage in illegal drug activity at similar rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z With all the night hours she puts in, she made $83,000 last year, more than 90 percent of all American workers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It was one hundred percent certain that the person she was baking for would never have tasted anything quite so heavenly in all his life. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z This helps to explain why up to 90 percent of forfeiture cases in some jurisdictions are not challenged. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The justice system employed almost 2.4 million people in 2003—58 percent of them at the local level and 31 percent at the state level. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Refinements can be made when the shooting percentage is other than 50 percent, and similar results seem to hold. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As many as 20 percent drop out the first week. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It is very tiny: just one-quarter of 1 percent as massive as Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I know he’s not always 100 percent honest about everything. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the McDonald’s handout, the cheeseburger contains only six ingredients: a 100 percent beef patty, a bun, two American cheese slices, ketchup, mustard, pickles, onions, and “grill seasoning,” whatever that is. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I really don’t get the coffee thing and I especially don’t get the coffee thing during the summer and I 100 percent don’t get the coffee thing when you’re already having a hard time sleeping. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The online men too were gorgeous: 68 percent called themselves “above average,” including 19 percent with “very good looks.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “To be honest, I’m not even a hundred percent certain about that.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But the watercolor would account for fifty percent of his mark this semester. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z About 90 percent of their diet was seafood—fish, shellfish, marine mammals, and seaweed—the Chinchorro ate almost no fruit, vegetables, or land animals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In a 2005 poll by The New York Times, fully 81 percent of Americans said they had felt social pressure to buy high-priced goods. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In the first quarter of 2000, the poorest 10 percent of workers were earning only 91 percent of what they earned in the distant era of Watergate and disco music. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Nathan slid back to the passenger side and buckled himself in, even though there was a 99 percent chance they wouldn’t see any other vehicles. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z In a Gallup poll this week, 82 percent of Americans surveyed said the Internet was at least partly to blame for the Colorado killings. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z States all over the nation were relegalizing racing under the pari-mutuel system, resulting in a 70 percent increase in the number of tracks. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In 2000, reformers finally had enough votes to get the issue on the statewide ballot, where a majority of voters chose to eliminate the ban, although 41 percent voted to keep it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z About 90 percent of the tablets in the earliest known Sumerian archives, from the city of Uruk, are clerical records of goods paid in, workers given rations, and agricultural products distributed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “When it comes to addictions, whether alcohol or technology or the Internet, it’s almost one hundred percent motivated by an external force.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Dimple’s mind could be considered 100 percent blown. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I’m at a 50 percent rate for smacking my head when I wake up. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Ninety percent of Durham’s black voters cast their ballots for Grabarek, handing the new mayor his slim margin of victory with their 2,418 votes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Would you rather have two-thirds of nothing and a big problem on your hands, or would you rather have fifty percent of a whole lot, problem-free?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z One problem: The atmosphere is very thin—less than 1 percent of the pressure on Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “So, because I won’t be able to see a hundred percent through my niqab, I’ll probably trip on this thing and fall?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “Brains are pretty much illegal. Only biodigital enhancement up to forty-nine percent is allowed to restore some lost function and that’s it.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The shocking thing is that the majority of American workers, about 60 percent, earn less than $14 an hour. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It has an astounding 10.2 percent efficiency, which is good because Mars doesn't get as much sunlight as Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The only way I can navigate through my life is because of the 98 percent that every life has in common. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z War Admiral was the toast of the newsmen; every single Daily Racing Form handicap- per had picked him to win, as had some 95 percent of the other writers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z "Good, pay in advance and you'll get a ten percent discount." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Eighty percent of its leasing arrangements lost money, often vast amounts. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Everybody here is in the top ten percent of what they do,” Steve Beecham, a home mortgage broker, said, “or they desire to be in the top ten percent.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Some naturalists think the population may have been overstated by as much as 20 percent, which means that the moose aren’t being so much culled as slaughtered. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z His competitors soon had their own rolling machines—although Duke had worked out a special arrangement with the machine's makers guaranteeing him a rate 25 percent under the best price charged any other manufacturer. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Which is when I realize my battery is only at 3 percent. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Of the balance, 65 percent would go to the winner and 35 percent to the loser. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In 1960, the Hispanic population of the county had been about 6 percent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And if my original ten percent really is enough, what if it had been nine percent? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The Earth’s magnetic field has diminished by perhaps as much as 6 percent in the last century alone. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In 1999, food took up only 16 percent of the family budget, while housing had soared to 37 percent. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, infrared measurements by the Soviet entry vehicles, Veneras 11 and 12, gave an abundance of about a hundredth of a percent. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “More like ten percent as big,” Byrd says. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The first is that of the 28 percent who got inoculated, an equal number were from the high-fear and the low-fear group. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Mitch is right. The crash-lander is high-risk. It could miss Mars, it could reenter wrong and burn up, it could crash too hard and destroy the food . . . We estimate a thirty percent chance of success." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty thousand people a day now rode the Ferris Wheel, 80 percent more than at the start of the month. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Today another curious formula seems to declare he is fifty percent of a person. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I’m telling you, it’s ninety percent of the problem.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “Your website says that 95 percent of healthy dogs get adopted. What does that mean?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “Ninety-three percent! And today I open savings account.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The comparable disparity for whites in the United States is 8 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The one percent doubt has to do with what happened on Valentine’s Day. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z As a result, about 30 percent of black men are automatically banned from jury service for life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “No, no. She’s scored between a 92 and a 95 percent on every quiz and every test.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Because of my extended driving time, I only got up to 70 percent before night fell. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z These stars shine for ten million years or so, a period corresponding to only 5 percent of a galactic rotation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The group as a whole guessed right 53.8 percent of the time, which is just above chance. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z By now, I'm almost one hundred percent in love with Samuel Adams Washburn. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z According to a Bureau of Justice Statistics study, about 30 percent of those released from prison in its sample were rearrested within six months of release. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I put a five on the table—a 50 percent tip—and walk four blocks. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Ninety percent of Poland’s population was Catholic and ten percent was Jewish. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “What do you shoot, Eddie,” he asked, “50 or 60 percent?” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Well, I wasn’t 100 percent on them either way, but the bird was definitely history. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They lived through that epidemic, which took, what? ten percent of the world’s population. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z At the very peak of the last ice age 20,000 years ago, 30 percent of the earth was under ice. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Hold on, Mama. I’m still not one hundred percent sold on the ceremony,” Uncle Jet said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z While waiting or serving his sentence, he’d probably get infected with TB—it was estimated that 80 percent of all Russian prisoners had bacilli in their bodies. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In the classical music world, 80 percent of the information available to the maestros was removed, and lo and behold, the maestros suddenly exercised much better judgment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Historical records show that frontier populations can increase at astonishing rates; in the early nineteenth century, the annual U.S. birthrate climbed as high as 5 percent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z To go from the bottom 20 percent to the top 20 percent is to enter a magical world where needs are met, problems are solved, almost without any intermediate effort. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That is about 80 percent less than I normally would in an 18-hour period. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z In the state system, less than 3 percent of new court commitments to state prison typically involve people convicted of homicide. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A 1986 Gallup poll reports that 52 percent of American teenagers believe in it, and a distressing number of people in all walks of life seem to accept at least some of its ancient claims. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a good thing Martha had us aim for ninety percent at Nationals, because we seniors definitely weren’t operating at one hundred percent. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In similar forests that have not recently been managed, the figure is only 20 percent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Draw a line under the top 0.1 percent of income earners—the top one- thousandth. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Within a short time, the Cherokees achieved almost 100 percent literacy in the syllabary, bought a printing press, had Sequoyah’s signs cast as type, and began printing books and newspapers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Fact: Only 36 percent of US homes still have both landlines and cell phones. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Of those who used a contact to find a job, only 16.7 percent saw that contact “often” — as they would if the contact were a good friend — and 55.6 percent saw their contact only “occasionally.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a one hundred percent failure rate. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Pérez had expected everybody to leave at that point, but 80 percent stayed behind, as living conditions at the sanitorium were better than in other parts of Cuba. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Thus, we might say that a 95 percent confidence interval for the percentage of voters favoring candidate X is 45 percent plus or minus 6 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In nearly 40 percent of families, the parents consume eleven hours of screen media a day, which does not include work time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The old age of slavery overseas and a Parliament elected by only 3 percent of the English was ticking down to days, to hours, to minutes, to seconds. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z On the immediate local front, reports showed that rental rates for apartments in Odessa had dropped 10 percent and occupancy rates 8 percent, boding disaster for a market that was woefully overbuilt from the boom. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The number of bankruptcies hied with the federal court in Midland went up by 65 percent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Most impressively, fully 72 percent of the women claimed “above average” looks, including 24 percent claiming “very good looks.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He isn’t 100 percent sure that he won’t, so he says nothing, just concentrates on holding the bin. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z More than ninety percent of the district’s population is dead. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Pollsters often use plus or minus 4 percent for this sample size because of nonrespondents and other difficulties. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d earned a grade of 90 percent in Spanish and 97 percent in geometry, making for “a really good year.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The efficiency of the Japanese food-processing industry is a miserable 32 percent that of ours. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Virtually all of it–99.9 percent of the mass of the solar system–went to make the Sun. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z His cell phone battery was at 4 percent. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z A poll taken in the spring of 1971 revealed that 71 percent of Americans believed that U.S. intervention in Vietnam had been a mistake. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The goal was for us to then stay at one hundred percent through the Olympics. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Fortunately, hydrogen is a lot lighter than oxygen, so that almost 90 percent of the weight of the water would have come from the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Reducing diversions even to 10 percent of total production, he calculated, would require a force of tens of thousands of inspectors fanned out across Russia’s vast territory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There the rejected items, which are about 90 percent of try-ons, are folded and put on hangers by whoever is staffing the fitting room, then placed in fresh shopping carts for Melissa and me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Originally, historians stated that roughly 620,000 soldiers and sailors, about 2 percent of the population, were killed in the Civil War. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Compared to the 17 percent loss at yesterday's camp, this means I can outrun the storm as long as I keep heading south. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t work in about 70 percent of people. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Along with her new title, Elizebeth received a raise of over fifty percent. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Which means the chance that a child born today will be gleaned between now and their five thousandth year on Earth is only 50 percent. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z With more than a million troops on active duty, about five percent of the country’s population is in uniform, compared with about half of one percent in the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But studies show that more than 90 percent of juveniles who are interrogated by police don’t wait to talk to an attorney and don’t understand the rights the police have read them. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Our gray matter is still, like, ten percent mashed potatoes.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Going to sleep while the Titan guarded you...she didn’t need to be a daughter of Athena to know that was one hundred percent unwise. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She took a home-pregnancy test, but it came out all fuzzy, so she made an appointment at a clinic, just to be one hundred percent sure. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Sales of chess sets shot up over 20 percent. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I bet 90 percent of people miss it. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z What he eventually determined was that of those who received only free treatment for their TB, 4-8 percent were cured. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Lower that value very slightly–from 0.007 percent to 0.006 percent, say–and no transformation could take place: the universe would consist of hydrogen and nothing else. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z If he analyzes an hour of a husband and wife talking, he can predict with 95 percent accuracy whether that couple will still be married fifteen years later. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Goldfarb admitted he didn’t have the slightest idea what to do with the MDR cases, which he estimated at 10 percent of those infected. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z And even if they were one hundred percent effective at sealing out the radiation, which is really unlikely, would we ever be able to leave this place? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He found that 56 percent of those he talked to found their job through a personal connection. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Something that is all, one hundred percent, mine. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z By cell count, humans are approximately 50 percent microbial, meaning that about half of the cells that make you up are not yours at all. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z One percent of all Americans take home nearly twenty percent of all earnings. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z This is the day I need to be operating at one hundred percent. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Its students score a good 10 to 15 percent higher on their entrance exams. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In Alabama, even though 65 percent of all homicide victims were black, nearly 80 percent of the people on death row were there for crimes against victims who were white. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When a serious felony case went to trial in a county like Monroe County, which was 40 percent black, it was not uncommon for prosecutors to exclude all African Americans from jury service. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The counselor there told them that the recidivism rate for African American boys was seventy-three percent. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Teaching was the most common female profession at the time, and schools typically paid women 20 to 50 percent less than they paid men. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She was right; once we set up all the spider webs and stuff, it 100 percent looked like a room in a castle. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z One month after the experiments, almost none of the subjects — a mere 3 percent — had actually gone to the health center to get inoculated. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was holding the Lombard back and shouting, “You offer a usurious rate! Forty percent! Forty! My uncle offered thirty. Thirty is reasonable! Thirty is standard! But thirty is undercutting now?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The chances of winning are less than a tenth of a percent. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z For the New World as a whole, the Indian population decline in the century or two following Columbus’s arrival is estimated to have been as large as 95 percent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He's speaking English, and his accent is almost 100 percent American, like Starry's. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She’d won the competition fair and square, and she still believed in her design 100 percent. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z A second later it creeps up to 98 percent, then 99 percent, and finally 100 percent. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z One hundred and fifty—the top 20 percent—fell into what Terman called the A group. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “It’s not like he could just stroll off! He was, like, ninety-eight percent dead!” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The violent-crime rate among black youths, in fact, has dropped by 60 percent in the past two decades, and the homicide rate has dropped by 82 percent. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Jesse e-mailed me after reading a Newsweek-online story about how applications at the University of Chicago had jumped more than 30 percent in the past year. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If I don’t stop drinking, I may not have more than six months to live, ’cause my liver is down to about thirty percent. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Though my phone only has twenty percent battery left.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Another sort of statistic often presented nakedly takes this form: the top X percent of the country owns Y percent of its wealth, where X is shockingly small and Y is shockingly big. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The cashier gives us a coupon for 20 percent off, but when I see the total, which is still a lot of money, I gulp and thank Mama for the new clothes. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “Well . . . pretty sure. Ninety-nine percent. Okay, eighty-five percent.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z More than 40 percent of the black girls born in California in a given year receive a name that not one of the roughly 100,000 baby white girls received that year. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He later gained back six percent, but had virtually no body fat—his body had consumed all extra weight and he would remain lean and wiry for several years. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z She said that only seventy percent of marriages stay together when they lose a child. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z We have made about one-tenth of one percent of the required effort. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The rate fell to 18 percent for those living in ghetto areas. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If 20 percent of all sodas dispensed by a vending machine overflow their cups, what is the probability that exactly three of the next ten will overflow? at most, three? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Physicists theorize that up to 27 percent of the mass-energy content of the universe is composed of what they refer to as dark matter. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Or maybe he was dying from third-degree burns on ninety percent of his body? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Isabella, you are absolutely, one hundred percent perfect! It’s us, not you.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The gas chromatograph on the Pioneer Venus entry probes gave an abundance of water in the lower atmosphere of a few tenths of a percent. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Church records placed membership numbers over eight hundred before the bombing; after the bombing, that number shrank by 50 percent. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z So right now, it's a 3 percent storm. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re paying him a thousand dollars a day from now until December first, with a ten percent daily raise if he’s a good employee.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z About 60 percent of them criticized Welles and his program. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Sanitation was practically unknown; only 10 percent of households had even a basic privy. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z When a single animal with a nosebleed showed up in a room, generally 80 percent of the animals died in that room shortly afterward. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Scruggs found about 90 percent of his company had been drafted and didn’t want to be in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “I want forty-five percent. I know you are working more now.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve finished my burger and 75 percent of the fries in the amount of time it takes my mom to eat about three bites of her salad. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “Stinky gives the sonbitch ten percent on every stiff he delivers to get drained,” Cleve said, jubilant that the heat was off him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Senate, winning 70 percent of the vote statewide, the largest margin in Illinois history and the biggest landslide of any Senate race in the country that year. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “You know the probability of getting me down there is point oh one percent, right?” she replied. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z That was almost fifty percent of the truth. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Even more remarkably, nearly 30 percent of the black girls are given a name that is unique among the names of every baby, white and black, born that year in California. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In one case, the scores on tests where cheating was possible were 50 percent higher, on average, than the “honest” scores. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “So maybe, before the worlds split, your mom and the other woman were totally, one hundred percent the same person,” Natalie said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Only one percent of a fully grown tree is actually alive at any one time. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z If we weren’t giving 100 percent, they weren’t going to invest either their time or money supporting us. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z By the end of February, the Alpha II racetracks had produced 200 grams of material enriched to 12 percent U-235. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By 1935, it numbered nearly four million members—nearly 50 percent of all German youth, age ten to eighteen. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z When Jus steps inside and the fragrance of chicken cacciatore assaults his senses, he’s one hundred percent sure he doesn’t wanna be here. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “I mean, I’m not one hundred percent sure, but definitely ninety-nine percent sure.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z But it feels strange to see the three other 100 percent Bengalis in the Das family put their hands over their hearts for the Stars and Stripes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Thirty-five percent said it had not changed, and only 23 percent said it had dropped. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It was a hundred percent black inside, all of them bigger than me and Mong put together. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z As it happens, fewer than 30 percent of Head Start teachers have even a bachelor’s degree. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In the U.S. population, about 14.5 percent of all men are six feet or taller. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Fewer than 5 percent of the neighborhood’s adults had a college degree; barely one in three adult men worked at all. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z About sixty percent of Shin’s class was assigned to the coal mines, where accidental death from cave-ins, explosions, and gas poisonings was common. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He claimed to have had at least one hundred boxes in his storage unit and maintained that what had been brought to him was only one percent of his belongings. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If they reach the road and get beyond it, they will suffer fifty percent casualties. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Connors talks to the boys’ coach while I watch the rest of the team hit a sorry thirty percent. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z In one hundred years, the amount of sugar an English person used had increased by 450 percent. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z About 99 percent of a pill is made up of other stuff that has nothing to do with the medication. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Today, over 50 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness, a rate nearly five times greater than that of the general adult population. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Fatalities in parking lots made up 1.25 percent of all accidental deaths during the last days of the Age of Mortality. Last night I decided I would choose today’s subject from a parking lot.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Over 70 percent wanted all American troops home by the end of the year. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But that means that about 3.6 percent of the people who dream every night will have a predictive dream. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s the best sexer in Georgia. He won the national competition in Japan before he moved to the States. He can sex twelve hundred chicks an hour with one hundred percent accuracy.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Today, about 12 percent of all student pilots in the United States are women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In the early 1990s, by contrast, poorer students got 50 percent more aid on average than the wealthier ones, according to the College Board, the organization that runs the SAT entrance exams. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z At the height of his popularity, some 70 percent of the American public believed he was doing an outstanding job of rooting out secret Communists. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Give me a minute,” I say, although I’m already ninety-nine percent sure. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z It appeared that more than 85 percent were cured. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Patients who had a hand or fingers, or a foot or toes, cut off had the best chance of survival—the percentage of deaths being 2.9 percent and 5.7 percent, respectively. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Brooks wanted the new building to be 50 percent taller “if,” he said, “the earth can support it.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He also reported they had only 5 percent of their fuel remaining, which wasn’t much. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Orion and Daedalus might travel at 10 percent the speed of light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By Holmberg’s time fewer than 150 remained—a loss of more than 95 percent in less than a generation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Three-fourths was 7 5 percent, not 34 percent. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By a conservative calculation, this huge expansion of New York’s police force would be expected to reduce crime in New York by 18 percent relative to the national average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Right now, I’m at fifty percent lung function.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z I think a 1 percent content will do the trick. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not our fault! Agriculture uses eighty percent of the water!” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z When these heavier hydrogen atoms join with oxygen to form water, the result is heavy water—it’s about 10 percent heavier than regular water. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will be done by 20 percent of the participants. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone knocks into me, and I bump into a kid whose microbiome is 90 percent body spray. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “My dad was the only Asian in like a hundred-mile radius. The next town over was like ninety-six percent African American, so I saw nonwhite people all the time, but I was definitely an anomaly.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Seventy-six percent of high school students who began high school in Maryland completed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z If profits are 12 percent, for example, is this 12 percent of costs, of sales, of last year’s profits, or of what? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “His parents could totally afford to send him to private school. But fifty percent of the colored students haven’t been to school at all.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And said monster is 100 percent right behind you, ready to devour you in a single bite if you move. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z And no one there seemed very interested when Jim declared, “We can drive down the prices by ninety to ninety-five percent.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z If I end up in an 81 percent part of the storm, I'll be in real trouble. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z About 40 percent of their calories come directly from corn, mostly in the form of corn tortillas. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The annual costs were, relatively, more then than now, but in both cases less than 1 percent of the appropriate Gross National Product. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In one recent ten-year stretch, each of these names was given to at least two thousand babies in California—fewer than 2 percent of them black. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “There is a one hundred percent chance that she has no good reason to talk to me,” I said. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Approximately 75 to 80 percent of incarcerated women are mothers with minor children. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “You will. But even that ten percent needs rest. Let’s both get some sleep. We’ll talk more in the morning.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Many people will of course say that the probability is 80 percent, but the correct answer, given certain reasonable assumptions, is considerably lower. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Sallie said, “That’s only one cloud. The forecast is for a ten percent chance of showers. I just heard the weatherman.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You will work ... in teams of. .. two. This will count. .. for thirty-five percent... of your final grade. I raise my hand again. “Can we choose our partners?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z During that time he had lost seventeen percent of his body weight. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z And here I am, 100 percent ready and knocking on the door—and I have no idea if it’s going to happen, or if it even should. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “The human body is about sixty percent water,” the girl says. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Surprisingly, about 63 percent of the time, at least one man will get his own hat back. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Bridge never left less than a twenty percent tip. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The dropout rate in primary school was 98 percent. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In other areas of the country, it takes five to seven percent. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We stopped going to the egg-dumping site when, of all the eggs we dug up, something like 99 percent of them turned up dead embryos. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Less than 2 percent of people in the U.S. kill themselves by drowning, maybe because the human body was built to float. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The value of Western Union’s shares fell by five percent. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And there were still 5.5 million square miles untouched by man—an area twenty-five percent larger than the continent of Europe. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “The math gives everyone seventy percent of a bottle.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z We both order waffles, but I’m 50 percent sure he’ll only bring hers. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z He went on to say that, despite this awareness, “amazingly,” 64 percent of the adults in the survey said they had sent a text while driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company later said that the number of calls placed that night had increased by just 6 or 7 percent. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z For instance, 95 percent of the cotton grown in the world today belongs to the cotton species Gossypium hirsutum, which was domesticated in prehistoric times in Mesoamerica. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She and Grandpa only drank skim but pretty soon it was all there—two percent, whole, even chocolate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If you asked an average taxpayer how he feels about a 6 percent utility increase, he’d probably be amenable. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z All three test results were identical, saying that they had 12 percent Abenaki and 8 percent Mohawk ancestry—even the dog! An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z He considered a rate between 80 and 90 percent “annoying but tolerable.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In 1969 the school had been 94 percent white and 6 percent Hispanic. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As if in answer to her question, someone fell through the black square—it was Minho, looking as if he’d been scratched or stabbed on ninety percent of his body “Minho!” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z This time it was his own fault, one hundred percent. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “Nobody can know that Miles with an s hates rapping, prefers photography, and is completely, one hundred percent gay.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Fifty-six percent of the men who post ads don’t receive even one e-mail; 21 percent of the women don’t get a single response. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Fewer than 3 percent are over sixty- five; fewer than 2 percent are poor or unemployed. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z After ninety-six hours, your chances drop to twenty-five percent, and so on. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Muslims make up only about 1 percent of the total US population. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z So suppose the United States wanted to reduce enemy forces by 20 percent—a significant figure, though hardly enough to break their will. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Better than most: His score was in the top 25 percent, Dr. Watson said. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In 1972, 18 percent of soft drink users said they drank Coke exclusively, compared with 4 percent who called themselves exclusive Pepsi drinkers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Another day: “Tell Mom Uncle Grover say yes for the addition, we paying five percent interest.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Hispanics made up 47 percent of the student population and blacks and other minorities the remaining 5 percent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The daily small army of runners each got ten percent of the money they turned in, along with the bet slips, to their controllers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are we a hundred percent positive it wasn’t an adult?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z At the time the new rules were adopted, the law governing civil forfeiture was so heavily weighted in favor of the government that fully 80 percent of forfeitures went uncontested. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “It’s ninety percent cheaper to produce than an ordinary chip because the whole thing is sealed in so you don’t need clean rooms for production.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Of the group who knew they had a few minutes to spare, 63 percent stopped. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The ice cream machine is taking up one hundred percent of my vision. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Before the advent of blind auditions, the percentage of women in major symphony orchestras in the United States was less than 5 percent. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z About 90 percent of the deaths have been because of alcohol. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z And since only about thirty percent of the heat is getting through, we do not even get that small result.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His own life bar drops by 20 percent. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z How fifty percent of me was the exact same as these guys. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Two weeks later I presented him with a list of suspects that turned out to be 90 percent accurate. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He asked the reader to envision a train one hundred yards long moving at 60 percent of the speed of light. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Nationally, narcotics task forces make up about 40 percent of all Byrne grant funding, but in some states as much as 90 percent of all Byrne grant funds go toward specialized narcotics task forces. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I read that more than 90 percent of the Zimbabwean people were called Shona, but that there was another tribe called Ndebele, which I think was pronounced en-duh-BELL-lay. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Grandma says, “There is some nerve damage in the leg and that will need time to heal. It will be months before he is one hundred percent. But they said his spirits are good.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z I’m trying to negotiate a 20 percent price reduction with the fitting room lady when—rotten luck!—Howard shows up and announces that there are no reductions and no employee discounts on clearanced items. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A long line of studies, including research into twins who were separated at birth, had already concluded that genes alone are responsible for perhaps 50 percent of a child’s personality and abilities. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z About 80 percent of the big wild mammals of the Americas became extinct at the end of the last Ice Age, around 13,000 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As a result, by 1880, when 76 percent of North Carolina’s white children could read and write, only 45 percent of black children were literate. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, we had to be a hundred percent certain not to jettison the parachutes before the spacecraft hit the water. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The week of Christmas produces a 2 percent drop in payment rates— again, a 15 percent increase in theft, an effect on the same magnitude, in reverse, as that of 9/11. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z If each of the ten items needed for the manufacture of something or other has risen 8 percent, the total price has risen just 8 percent, not 80 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “You want to know something else about your Jake Mosby? His daddy owns about twenty percent of the steel mill that owns us. He’s got more money than Carter’s got little liver pills.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Why didn’t Native American diseases instead decimate the Spanish invaders, spread back to Europe, and wipe out 95 percent of Europe’s population? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We polled 62.6 percent of the national vote, slightly short of the two-thirds needed had we wished to push through a final constitution without support from other parties. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Between 1927 and 1928, illegal liquor imports fell by an estimated sixty percent—from 11 million gallons a year to 5 million. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z "Can his makeshift rover operate at twenty percent power?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a short period of time when I was obsessed with the study of the ocean, since it takes up more than 70 percent of the planet. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z They ended up getting 42.6 percent of the Trivial Pursuit questions right. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I feel 100 percent ready to say abracadabra. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Sure enough, when Levanthal redid the experiment, one small change was sufficient to tip the vaccination rate up to 28 percent. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I search his face, trying to determine if he’s making fun of me or being ironic, but he’s not—he’s one hundred percent serious, or at least I believe he is. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who were distracted by doing anagrams—those who were forced to make an unconscious, spontaneous gut decision—chose the best car 60 percent of the time. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z When I attended, about 80 percent of the students were nonwhite. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z "According to your latest satellite data, the dust storm in Arabia Terra isn't abating at all, and will block eighty percent of the sunlight?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The top 20 percent routinely exercises other, far more consequential forms of power in the world. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The luxury end makes up only 10 percent of the cruise line market now, Mathisen said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I was almost 100 percent sure that Erlan thought bugs were gross. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Me: "The rule of nines. If you add up all those numbers, the body parts, you get ninety-nine percent. What's the other one percent?" Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The lowest I could get it to was 15 percent. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The middle 60 percent were the B group, those who were doing “satisfactorily.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Oh, there were a couple girls and one boy who were little Einsteins, and there was no way I’d ever be smarter than them, but I was way smarter than 99 percent of the others. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he was telling me the truth, but you could never know a hundred percent with T. Ray. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s really supposed to be fifteen percent, but it depends on how much you like me. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Truman was the only school in Pennsylvania on the list with more than 30 percent of its students in the free lunch program. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z But there was always that point two percent. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Being part of Gale’s family, the kid has to eat better than ninety percent of the rest of District 12. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z During the first hundred years after the English arrived in 1607, over 90 percent of Virginia’s native population was killed either in warfare and massacres or by the new diseases the Europeans brought with them. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z While 75-80 percent of the energy a rower produces in a two-thousand-meter race is aerobic energy fueled by oxygen, races always begin, and usually end, with hard sprints. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I said, “I’m ninety-nine percent sure I can.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In 1977, the former Klan leader was elected business manager by a four-to-one margin despite the fact that his opponent, the incumbent, was black, as were 80 percent of the union members. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In the cafeteria, where spectators wolfed down the local variety of lamb-based hot dogs and gurgled bottles of 2 percent Icelandic beer, the action on the stage was discussed vociferously. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z On the Hamlin County Animal Control website, it says the department finds homes for 95 percent of the healthy dogs and 78 percent of the healthy cats. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z If a white person is saying a neighborhood is diverse, they mean nine percent black people. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z At the same time, it found that people were launching their news apps 39 percent more each month. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Plots with charcoal alone grew little, but those treated with a combination of charcoal and fertilizer yielded as much as 880 percent more than plots with fertilizer alone. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In 1988, for the first time ever, the proportion of white students dropped below half, to 48 percent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite twelve years’ experience on the school board, she had received only 24 percent of the vote. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When Schooler did this experiment with a whole sheet of insight puzzles, he found that people who were asked to explain themselves ended up solving 30 percent fewer problems than those who weren’t. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z As if that were not enough, the Nationalists increased their popular vote in the election by more than 10 percent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s especially interesting to note that by the two wrestlers’ second subsequent meeting, the win percentages revert to the expected level of about 50 percent, suggesting that the collusion spans only two matches. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z When it reached 1 percent, I cut power to the regulator. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a blend of 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose that tastes exactly as sweet as table sugar. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z According to the authors, arts instruction has declined by 49 percent since the 1980s for black children and 40 percent for Latinos. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Not any percent of him seems full of it anymore. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Julia calculated, “Better than ninety percent chance that Tom's okay, then.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z In a New York Times poll, 43 percent of them called it essential to success, while 42 percent of college graduates and 32 percent of high school dropouts did. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “This country’s divorce rate is over 50 percent. Maybe OST could help.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z In 35 percent of those schools, not a single black child was included in the sample. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He promised, too, that a Confederate state could return to the Union whenever ten percent of its voters should reestablish a loyal Union government within that state. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The Freedom Writers supported me 100 percent, so at that moment, I knew I had at least 150 votes in my favor. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z There’s still some danger from the wind—it’s at approximately twenty percent. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It will get 84 percent of them up to or above their grade level in mathematics. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Eventually, Bobby sent 10 percent of his meager chess earnings to the Church. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Yet more than twenty percent has been destroyed because of logging and wildfires.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z In 1927, when Charles Lindbergh made his groundbreaking first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic, less than 1 percent of American pilots were women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z By the fourth 40 percent, then 50, then 20. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, twenty-five years later, it’s close to 50 percent. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z When I shyly told my mother this, she seemed insulted and said, “You don’t even know little percent of me! How can you be me?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Five hundred thousand depositors had funneled $2 billion into his sixteen banks and had been promised 15 percent interest on their money. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Ninety-nine point nine percent of them were black—and then there was me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Conference of Mayors, 67 percent of the adults requesting emergency food aid are people with jobs. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately for the farmers, the death rate then dropped in the second year to 90 percent and eventually to 25 percent, frustrating hopes of eradicating rabbits completely from Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Alabama charges a 30 percent collection fee, and Florida allows private debt collectors to tack on a 40 percent surcharge to the underlying debt. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Give me a sheet of math problems and I’ll get 98 percent of them right. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Using fairly straightforward tools of astronomy you can easily enough determine that the bulbs are of equal brightness and that one is, say, 50 percent more distant than the other. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Yes. I suppose. Ten percent of the island’s Caucasian male population. It—” “And isn’t the percentage even higher, doctor, for males of Japanese descent? A higher percentage of B positives among the island’s Japanese-Americans?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z That happens to be exactly the same way people describe jellyfish, by the way—more than 95 percent water—but this doesn’t matter to me yet. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z John had nasopharyngeal carcinoma, an extremely rare cancer that attacks the throat and nasal passages, but if the disease is caught early, 60 to 70 percent of patients can be cured. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In 1983, as a result of desegregation the proportion of white students at Permian was 76 percent and that of Hispanics 14 percent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But, Blagojevich argued, this was a vital intervention in a state where 40 percent of third graders read below their grade level. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z My light blue corduroy pants that I'd proudly purchased with my 50 percent employee discount at the Gap were ruined forever. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Or do they really pay 2 percent tax and keep the rest? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The battery was at 30 percent and there wasn’t a single cell reception bar. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z These days 19 percent of American meals are eaten in a car. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Though I bet Aunt Heidi’s shrink listens to Aunt Heidi’s dreams all the time, and I’m ninety percent sure they always involve babies, or Troy. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z "Airlock pressure to one hundred percent," Beck reported. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t a hundred percent sure we’d invited her this time. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The Depression had come, and the unemployment rate was nearing 25 percent. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Thirty percent of those who stopped by the six-choice booth ended up buying some jam, while only 3 percent of those who stopped by the bigger booth bought anything. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Eighty-five percent of the public supported Johnson’s handling of the crisis. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z From 1991 to 2001, the homicide rate among young black men—who were disproportionately represented among crack dealers—fell 48 percent, compared to 30 percent for older black men and older white men. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In the early years, 30 percent of Levittown’s population was under five years old. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z And I’m afraid I am becoming something that the old Jenna Fox never was and maybe ten percent isn’t enough after all. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Will the wonder of knowing if ten percent is enough—the most important part—ever be answered, or will it drive me to the edge before that can happen? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z He does not want to be known one hundred percent by me, if his face is any indication. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z No more than 10 percent actually make it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “That’s the liver. It can be up to twenty percent of the shark’s body weight. The fatter the liver, the healthier the shark.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He genuinely wondered, even as he estimated himself to fall in the top twenty percent of the general population, careerwise. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Census figures put the black population, among Levittown’s fifty-four thousand residents, at 2 percent. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Tats 1: “Okay, so we’re a hundred percent sure he likes you.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Because the Martian atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as the Earth’s, a very large parachute, eighteen meters in diameter, was deployed to slow the spacecraft as it entered the thin air of Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I only have ten percent of my original brain, what is the rest?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z In July 1944, General Groves told Arthur Compton to plan a personnel cutback of as much as 75 percent by September 1. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Since only 10 percent of thru-hikers make it this far, and it is too distant for most day hikers, the trail in Maine is much more thinly used, and so the foliage encroaches. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Using probability theory, I calculate that, given my assumption, the likelihood of this result is well below 5 percent, a commonly used “level of significance.” Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z On the subways, by the end of the decade, there were 75 percent fewer felonies than there had been at the decade’s start. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I can think of it as "percent power loss." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z According to government figures released in 1980, women earn 59 percent of what men do. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “But a reminder: This paper is fifty percent of your grade. I encourage you to take it seriously Now, about this Jesus fellow.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Mind you, when you’ve just heard that same kid express the belief that a president has to know every student’s name, you can never be one hundred percent sure. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Last night I found out that on August 7, 2007,” he wrote, “a Harris Poll was released showing that 89 percent of American adults believe that sending text messages while driving should be outlawed.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z How her feet hurt, how she misses him, how Kim got a 90 percent in spelling. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z “We need you to give us one hundred and ten percent in there, li’l brother!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z By comparison, another of the shows tested by Sesame Street at the very same time recorded 90 percent plus correct answers on the postshow quiz. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Numbers rise and fall on the little screen, until finally it settles on 97 percent. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Medicine X which immediately alleviates 3 percent of all headaches in test after test is certainly better than nothing, but how much would you spend on it? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Accordingly, a formerly incarcerated person living at or below the poverty level can be charged by four or five departments at once and can be required to surrender 100 percent of his or her earnings. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z You can hear only what is piped in over the radio; you can breathe only 100 percent oxygen, and it is usually odorless; you can’t feel much through the gloves. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I like 100 percent whole grain wheat bread, thin sliced. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The Academy was 100 percent eco-friendly, right down to the bathrooms, where the toilets had different “flush settings,” depending on the kind of waste you were getting rid of. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z About 80 percent of his classmates were white, many of them Irish Catholic kids who came from outlying working-class white neighborhoods. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Most of the men — over 80 percent — belonged to just one group. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The share of income earned by the rest of the top 10 percent rose far less, and the share earned by the bottom 90 percent fell. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z About six percent of the country’s gross domestic product is spent on education, more than double the percentage of comparable spending in the United States, Japan, or Britain. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Ninety percent of the time, they forget to tip me. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z You certainly wouldn’t expect them to uphold their 80 percent clip. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In technical terms, the albedo of the moon is .07, which means that it bounces back only 7 percent of the light striking it, absorbing the other 93 percent. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I was spending more and more time in Louisiana, Florida, and Virginia, which together had close to 90 percent of the non-homicide cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Why I trust someone who’s just told me he’s full of it ninety-eight percent of the time I don’t know. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z They knew my face was not one hundred percent Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Thirteen days later, the Georgia Supreme Court reversed itself, holding that the fact that 98.4 percent of the defendants selected to receive life sentences for repeat drug offenses were black required no justification. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Well, partially. It is an act. I am an act. Totally full of it. About ninety-eight percent of the time anyway. My intentions are rarely honorable. It’s not terrible to be called out for once.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z On the display was another sign for 20 percent off. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z They seem to partake vigorously in the expansion of the universe, some receding from us at more than 90 percent the speed of light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If the price of bread goes up 6 percent, that’s no reason to suspect the price of yachts will go up by 6 percent as well. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, the American public’s approval of Johnson’s handling of the war slipped below 50 percent. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The rest—somewhere between 20 and 40 percent—went to the right, to the labor camps. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Altogether, just 2 percent of the United States is classified as built up. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Their loans carry very low interest rates, and if you go into teaching they’ll forgive ten percent of the loan for every year you teach, up to fifty percent.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z But I want to know she’s here, that she belongs to our family one hundred percent. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z At 5 percent, it's hard to stay conscious. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But the universe, all of it, almost everywhere, is 99 percent hydrogen and helium,* the two simplest elements. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I would probably get 100 percent on each one, but some of the questions require long answers I just can’t explain with the words on my board. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “One hundred percent against it. I think it’s a loathsome idea. But what about those forms you said people had to sign? Didn’t they have to take them home for their parents to look at?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Those, he said, he couldn’t vouch for one hundred percent. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Seventy percent of his clients were Mexican-American, and much of his work was in the lucrative area of drug-related cases. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that’s different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Dad met with his foremen and told them a twenty percent cut in salaries—his included—would take effect immediately. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In 1940, just 2 percent of all black women earned college degrees, and 60 percent of those women became teachers, mostly in public elementary and high schools. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z From the early 1980s to the end of the decade, there was an almost 61 percent jump in the murder rate. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Saying it made her feel like 100 percent jerk, but she’d say anything to spend the summer with Park. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z In 2007, a survey by Nationwide Insurance found that 73 percent of people reported talking on a cell phone while driving, with teen drivers showing the highest use of any demographic. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But a study funded by the Ford Foundation and other private donors found that nearly 30 percent of California public schools provide no courses at all in the arts. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I say that because, based on current quotas, a person’s chance of being gleaned within the next one hundred years is only 1 percent. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He’s not going one hundred percent and doesn’t get physical with anyone. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The pay gap is often even greater when broken down by race, with Latinas making 54 percent and black women making 63 percent of what white men make. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The number has grown more than 400 percent since 1980, after adjusting for inflation, while the total number of households has grown only 27 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Mom just nodded her head as though she agreed one hundred percent with Mrs. Grantham and was pleased as punch that Mrs. Grantham was so, so...you know, so perceptive.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But when mixed with water, which is how it courses through the human body, it is only about thirty-five percent. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I sit on the curb, sweating, tired, and one hundred percent ready to be done. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “But that isn’t necessarily a big influence on the 99 percent of people who are not entrepreneurs.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Although 98 percent of all the matter that exists was created with the Big Bang, that matter consisted exclusively of light gases: the helium, hydrogen, and lithium that we mentioned earlier. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Fifty cases represented about 10 percent of all active TB cases in the slum, about ten times more than might have been expected. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The average Nantucket house price last year jumped 26 percent, to $1,672 million, said H. Flint Ranney, a veteran real estate broker. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z If Father really believes what he says, that there is a most important ten percent, then one day I may make the choice to go to Boston. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Between my two jobs, I was earning approximately $300 a week after taxes and paying $480 a month in rent, or a manageable 40 percent of my earnings. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She probably had a stronger familiarity with the window cat she passed on her way there than she did with 99 percent of the kids at Booker. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I figure bumping it to 40 percent will do. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z My grandmother was the only one who thought it was a 100 percent good idea. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z In 1950, fifteen years before my parents moved to South Shore, the neighborhood had been 96 percent white. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There Tasha was, standing in front of a man who I was ninety-nine percent sure was the preacher. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Over fifty percent of the country’s contraband made it ashore somewhere along this half-mile stretch. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “You scored a one hundred percent on your Pakistani studies exam.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A similar calculation using 23 rather than 5 yields V2, or 50 percent, as the probability that at least two of twenty-three people will have a common birthday. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Ninety percent oX the people who come down with Ebola Zaire died of it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And if we don't win this challenge, I one hundred percent will be. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z As for Starry, I doubt she'll choose jeans for her first day, but I'm 100 percent sure she's not putting on a salwar. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When they started work, the gap was only 52 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z If a player attempts twenty shots per night, for example, the probability is surprisingly almost 50 percent that he will hit at least four straight baskets sometime during the game. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Roughly half of the white women on the site and 80 percent of the white men declared that race didn’t matter to them. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Um...out of the healthy animals that we recover or are surrendered, we find homes for 95 percent of them.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Another factor Father and his scientists didn’t count on, that biochips would learn, grow, and mutate because somewhere in that ten percent was a hidden message: survive. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Tats 2: “No, make that two hundred percent, because any guy who shows a girl his nerdy side right away is, like, double sure she’s the one. I mean, birds?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “Because it’s going to be hard, with the kids and all. I don’t want to get five miles into the woods and have you—” “I’m sure. I’m completely, entirely, one hundred percent sure.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In the end, 69 percent of the white voters supported negotiations, giving de Klerk a great victory. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the most encouraging developments has come out of Australia, where renewable energy now generates enough power to run 70 percent of Australian homes. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Fact is, 31 percent of them had an imaginary friend at age six or seven, even more than three- and four-year-olds. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Only affluent Baldwin County to the south, with its beautiful Gulf of Mexico beaches, was atypical, with an African American population of just 9 percent. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Stella agreed 100 percent, but she wasn’t sure if she was allowed to say that to a white child. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z For large values of N, the probability that Myrtle will find her Mr. Right following this 37 percent rule is also approximately 37 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Only 1.4 percent of them marry in any given year, the Urban Institute study found. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z At the time he declared this new war, less than 2 percent of the American public viewed drugs as the most important issue facing the nation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z J. T. paid the board of directors nearly 20 percent of his revenues for the right to sell crack in a designated twelve-square-block area. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He took a deep breath and slowly lowered himself down next to her, one hundred percent sure she was going to yell, or worse—laugh. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Jus doesn’t know much about watches, but he’s about eighty-seven percent sure this one is vintage and worth more money than Mama’s ever had in her bank account at once. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Indeed, historians have discovered that some 35 percent of the cargo typically taken from Europe to Africa originally came from India. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The number of police officers per capita in the United States rose about 14 percent during the 1990s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Technically, I'm a hundred percent—my grandmother, my mother, me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z By the mid-1980s, nearly 20 percent of the people in jails and prisons in the United States had served in the military. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Come on, tell me you’ll keep moving. Penny needs you at one hundred percent, and I need to know you’ll be strong enough to take care of the future global leader.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The majority of black women are unmarried today, including 70 percent of professional black women. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The hiring of additional police accounted for roughly 10 percent of the 1990s crime drop. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z When he started his business, he expected a 95 percent payment rate, based on the experience at his own office. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z If you speak English, you have about a 50 percent chance of remembering that sequence perfectly. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Yes,” I say, although to be honest, I’m not a hundred percent sure. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Because at full capacity, it can provide enough water for eight percent of San Diego’s population. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z When these townships were established, Afrikaners, or whites of Dutch ancestry, made up 9 percent of the population. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Still, I pretend I’m drinking exactly what Mama Ya-Ya drinks, and not just 99 percent hot milk. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z With respect to parole, in 1980, only 1 percent of all prison admissions were parole violators. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z While Mrs. Bell, Stanley's former math teacher, might want to know the percent change in Stanley's weight, the reader probably cares more about the change in Stanley's character and self- confidence. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z She says, “Did you know that the universe is approximately twenty-seven percent dark matter?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The Irish Justice of the Stockyards District Police Court, with jurisdiction over minor crimes in that neighborhood, dismissed more than eighty percent of claims brought against strikers accused of violent attacks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The people given four minutes to deliberate got the right answer a mere 20 percent of the time. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z By 1903, fully 25 percent of the 'Big Three” meatpacking companies’ profit on beef came from their ingenious ways of using what had formerly been thrown away. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Today, seat belts are worn close to 90 percent of the time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “We woke up one day,” said Whitman, “and found out that 20 percent of the people on eBay were saying, 'I accept PayPal, please pay me that way.’ The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z And the letter that appears most often in the message is “S,” at seventeen percent. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z For 99.99 percent of the history of the whales, there were no humans in or on the deep oceans. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Seems they have to have a ten percent tip, and then there’s that bottle of mineral water—and a queer sort of water too. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s shown me how empty a one hundred percent human being can be. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Ninety percent of Hot Pockets have bacon in them. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z These germs remain latent in 90 percent of those affected. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Revenues from what the bureau described as “other personal services” increased 74 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z A 2005 report by the Government Accountability Office concluded the program may have contributed to a 1 percent reduction in crime—at a cost of $8 billion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I manage to get a B or better in all my classes—even Ms. Rucker’s, where I’ve climbed up to eighty-two percent, thanks to Rosa. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z About 80 percent of the population had been born elsewhere; about half had rolled into town during the previous five years. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z “But it is the most important ten percent. Do you hear me? The most important.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z There must have been eighty students in that room, and I’ll bet ninety-five percent of them approached him at some point. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Don’t we know it,” he snapped back, looking at us like we were all on his side, when really we were backing Sugar-Girl one hundred percent. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The river’s floodplain and that of its tributaries take up another 5 to 10 percent of the basin. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Overall, 1 percent described themselves as upper class, 15 percent as upper middle class, 42 percent as middle, 35 percent as working, and 7 percent as lower. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z However, when the scene is reenacted many times under comparable lighting conditions by a court investigating the case, the victim correctly identifies the race of the assailant only about 80 percent of the time. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Burnham was a lackluster student: “the records of the Old Central show his average scholarship to be frequently as low as 55 percent,” a reporter discovered, “and 81 percent seems the highest he ever reached.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Me: "The girls get nothing. The boys get the extra point. They're complete at one hundred percent. That's why women are stronger: We live with omission." Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Goldman’s rule won hands down in two directions: it was a whopping 70 percent better than the old method at recognizing the patients who weren’t actually having a heart attack. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The data show that in the sumo tournaments held immediately after allegations of match rigging, 7-7 wrestlers win only 50 percent of their final-day matches against 8-6 opponents instead of the typical 80 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z When there was just one person next door, listening, that person rushed to the student’s aid 85 percent of the time. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Among "colored persons" in that age group, the rate was 70 percent. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z While 80 percent of Japan’s land area consists of mountains unsuitable for agriculture and only 14 percent is farmland, per square mile of that farmland Japan supports a population density eight times that of Britain’s. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All of them were high in protein—17-32 percent, compared with 8—14 percent for wheat, 9 percent for corn, and even lower for barley and white rice. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well. I think it could happen. Certainly it hasn’t happened yet. I’m not worried. More likely it would be a virus that reduces us by some per-=fr® centage. By thirty percent. By ninety percent.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z More than a quarter of them had been arrested in North Korea, and ten percent said they had been sent to jails, where forced starvation, torture, and executions were commonplace. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “One percent? Compared to breaking into Special Circumstances, that’s a breeze.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Across the South as a whole, a mere 1 percent of black school children were attending school with whites in 1964—a full decade after Brown was decided. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Just 8 percent of undergraduates in 2004 came from families in the bottom half of the income distribution, down from 11 percent a decade earlier. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And assuming Leo’s doomsday candles didn’t go off by accident - Leo’s inventions sometimes did that - in which case the weather would get much hotter, with a ninety percent chance of fiery apocalypse. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z If the orbs were ten percent more expensive, they would be out of their reach. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Better still, 83 percent of all preschoolers fixated on the letters in a left-to-right sequence — mimicking, in other words, the actual reading process. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The best I could hope for is a three percent transfer, maybe five. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Very good. For now you truly understand the danger you are in. My master—a magician whose magic dwarfs your 100 percent—now possesses the Black Book!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Either one would provide only the most tenuous sympathetic link to my lute string: one percent at best, perhaps only a tenth of that. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z One effect of these laws was an increase in the prison population, over the next twenty-five years, of 560 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He is following Dad’s rule of offering 20 percent less than what they offer. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “He didn’t say. But it’s not as if he will get nothing. Daddy will still give him ten percent, after all.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Wasn’t it Jacqui who told us the human body is sixty percent water? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Interesting idea. As a parent, I’m behind it one hundred percent. As a scientist...well, the math doesn’t exactly seem realistic.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Even though it doesn’t work a hundred percent of the time, it's a good trick for dealing with a tricky spelling problem. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She explained how they only had to put ten percent down. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is there really a most important ten percent?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “I want to know all of you. One hundred percent.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z In 1867, at the dawn of the Reconstruction Era, no black man held political office in the South, yet three years later, at least 15 percent of all Southern elected officials were black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Only 3 percent of Shenandoah’s two million annual visitors go more than a few yards into what is generously termed the backcountry. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Eighty percent in one match and 40 percent in the next? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z At 98 percent, the number bounds to 25 million. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In my eight years of school I had never placed below the top one percent in any class. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There would be tests every Friday, on which we’d have to score 70 percent or better; if we didn’t, we could take the test only two more times. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s only about... let me see . . . fifteen percent of us who are doing something with our lives: me, you, your brother Mike—that’s it. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Sing Sing had between 700 and 750 “security employees” at a given time; 34 percent of these officers had less than a year on the job. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z From 1997 to 2002, revenues from hair, nail, and skin care services jumped by 42 percent nationwide, Census Bureau data show. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z At the pinnacle of his career, that figure had jumped to 90 percent, plus eight million sets in cars. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “As if there was something more admirable about Lemuel Johnson because he was 100 percent American—whatever that is.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But I’m ninety-nine percent sure he has no idea what luciferin is. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Twenty-two percent of the world’s population sees ghosts,” I tell him via the wall. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Eighty percent have decided to obey the dictates of their conscience, but the penalty will be severe. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He is among the 20 to 30 percent of those boarding the trains in Tapachula who are fifteen or under, by estimate of Grupo Beta, a government migrant rights group in Chiapas. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Her accent is 100 percent American, and she never addresses Didu as "Auntie" or greets us with a Namaste. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I want somebody to give me fifteen percent of something.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “We could say the same to you. A third of the proceeds from our stash, or fifty percent of nothing?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The fellowships had been established by the National Research Council to support candidates from among the top 5 percent of PhDs in the country, making it an invaluable guide to a prospective candidate’s scientific ability. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But immediately after September 11 of that year, the rate spiked a full 2 percent and hasn’t slipped much since. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z If all the AT maps were anything as good as this, I would have enjoyed the experience appreciably more—say, 25 percent more. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I’m 99 percent sure she thinks I’m straight. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The top 120 men in the Black Disciples gang represented just 2.2 percent of the full-fledged gang membership but took home well more than half the money. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z According to the media, there are more than 2,000 people working at Star City, and 30 percent of those jobs are critical to the space agency. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z And I wasn’t 100 percent sure that I wanted it to be true. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Making a calculation that was short on information and long on aspiration, Shin told himself he had a ninety percent chance of getting through the fence and a ten percent chance of getting shot. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Despite a good deal of opinion to the contrary, an item whose price has been increased by 50 percent and then reduced by 50 percent has had a net reduction in price of 25 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But for the remaining 30 percent of my time, CF controls my life. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Emily, James, and Matthew would split 10 percent of the royalties earned from the sale of the book, to be deposited into a scholarship fund for each of them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Of the billions and billions of species of living thing that have existed since the dawn of time, most–99.99 percent–are no longer around. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Pearly told everyone who would listen that he was 100 percent Indian — Hindu Marwari through and through. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Ninety percent qualify for “free or reduced lunch,” which is to say that their families earn so little that the federal government chips in so the children can eat properly at lunchtime. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Twenty percent of beer drinkers drink 80 percent of all beer. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As it turns out, the data show that the 7-7 wrestlers win only 40 percent of the rematches. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Less than 10 percent criticize Welles and the broadcast. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z More than 80 percent of the tree still outside. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In contrast to Wilkins, Farmer backed the students’ efforts 100 percent and enjoined every man, woman, and child in St. Joseph’s to participate in the direct-action campaign in any way possible. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A mere dozen species account for over 80 percent of the modern world’s annual tonnage of all crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Except, she said, only about seventy-three percent of Americans have feeds. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Helmuth takes the first paper and signs his name, assuring that he is 100 percent Aryan, not one drop of Jewish blood. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “Look at them,” she whispered to Celia, refocusing her attention on the dozens of other Insomnia Con students milling in the same general direction as her and Celia, 98 percent of whom were male. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Only 25 percent of all male students attended academic high schools and were expected to go on to college. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Ninety-five percent of the time, Blue Spot was empty. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I mean, not that Sahil didn’t have nice, big, manly hands that I 100 percent did not regret touching. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z "How much fuel—" "Use seventy-five point five percent of remaining attitude adjust fuel," Johanssen said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond that, each was to be given 30 percent of all television and film rights. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But a study in the early 1960s of seven thousand unvaccinated smallpox cases in southern India found that the disease killed 43 percent of its victims. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It’s estimated that South Korean businesses control between sixty and eighty percent of that market, including distribution, retail, and, increasingly, manufacturing. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Ninety-five percent of respondents pictured a black drug user, while only 5 percent imagined other racial groups. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I don’t know exactly how many drinks Juanga had, but I’m one hundred percent sure he shouldn’t be driving. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Of the three selfer cereals among them—einkorn wheat, emmer wheat, and barley—the wheats offered the additional advantage of a high protein content, 8—14 percent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Since 1977, an American’s average daily intake of calories has jumped by more than 10 percent. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The white women who said race didn’t matter sent about 97 percent of their e-mail queries to white men. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The 1999 drug bust incarcerated almost 15 percent of the black population of the town, based on the uncorroborated false testimony of a single informant hired by the sheriff of Tulia. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Suddenly, I found myself with a full white family—a mom and dad, three sisters, and a baby brother—in a totally white community, attending a 99 percent white high school. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z For instance, Mom was ninety-nine percent serious about divorcing Dad if he didn’t come home from jail and get his act together. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z About 6 percent of the time, as the subjects were repeating what they heard in the left ear, a word from the right ear, the unattended one, would slip through into their report. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “If I had fifty silver talents and converted them to Vintish coin and back, how much would I have if the Cealdim took four percent each time?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We got 20 percent off on our meals, and for the first few weeks there, I had a cheeseburger and a chocolate milk shake every day for lunch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Black women replaced them, accounting for 60 percent of all domestics in the 1940s, and dominated the field until other occupations began to open up to them. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt like I did my part in that I gave myself over to fencing 100 percent. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z During the 1990s, the unemployment rate fell by 2 percentage points; nonviolent crime, meanwhile, fell by roughly 40 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Within a couple weeks, the class quiz average had risen to 97 percent. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Getting a job is more common, and 39 percent of poor people who are hired rise out of poverty, as against 3 5 percent who get at least a two-year college degree. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But I can't neglect the other 25 percent of that pie chart. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Well, I did. Sort of. I’m like fifty percent sure his first name is Hudson.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Or he could pay thirteen percent of the bail to the courts and three percent to the bondsman—about $10,000 total. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It looked delicious, and was guaranteed 100 percent poison- and tracer-free, which I was ecstatic about. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Close to 70 percent of the kids were on the school lunch program. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z One hundred percent would stand up without hesitation when I said, “How many believe what they have heard?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It appears that at least 90 percent of the universe, and perhaps as much as 99 percent, is composed of Fritz Zwicky’s "dark matter"–stuff that is by its nature invisible to us. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Rutherford surmised correctly that the phenomenon was related to the 80 percent concentration of nitrogen in the air. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In 1994, 25 percent of all Haitians who lived there died before they reached the age of forty. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Mariela was part of a salsa duo with her older sister and likes to say proudly that she is “one hundred percent Puerto Rican.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Okay, that’s not one hundred percent true, but sort of. I mean, I’d won everything else. It was the one thing I couldn’t seem to conquer. I just felt like ... I don’t know.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Foaly punched in the coordinates, blowing it up four hundred percent. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z In the group given cash and other services as well as medicine, 100 percent recovered. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I can barely keep my eyes open, so the I’m-too-tired-to-talk routine is 100 percent believable. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z As Lawrence expected, the skills of the mass spectrograph operators improved dramatically with experience, expanding the device’s capabilities; by mid-January, a nine-hour run yielded 18 micrograms of uranium enriched to 25 percent U-235. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Did you know that seventy percent of men aren’t as attached to their female children as they are to their sons? It’s true. I read that somewhere.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Ninety percent of me wanted to take the break. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z In the space of a year, from 1995 to 1996, the number of children born with the disease increased by 500 percent. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Between ninth and twelfth grades, their reading levels increased at a rate of 20 percent more than a cohort of similar students—as measured by academic ability and socioeconomics—who were not getting arts education. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z By the end of election night, it was clear that although he had garnered less than 38 percent of the vote, Thompson had been elected. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Within three years, nearly 68 percent were rearrested at least once for a new offense. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The white men who said that race didn’t matter sent 90 percent of their e-mail queries to white women. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Nixon carried forty-nine states, winning more than 60 percent of the vote to McGovern’s 37 percent. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I checked yesterday's power generation, and it was 97 percent of optimal. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m 100 percent certain it’s because Abby came in late and squeezed in between her and Nick on the couch. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The black population of Odessa was quite small—about 5 percent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, the vote to include it was 100 percent yes. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z And for dessert, the program said, “Twenty-five percent of gross receipts.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And just before Byrd can get her first word out, a word that may or may not be 100 percent the truth, there’s yelling in the main office. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The fact to keep in mind is that in the 1950s “blacks” made up about 80 percent of the Jamaican population, outnumbering coloreds five to one. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It doesn’t say what happens to the other 5 percent of dogs or 22 percent of cats. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z "None of us have to be 100 percent American," says Uncle Lou. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Once they knew the amount, the funeral cost eighty percent of it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z An average-size human being jumping out of an airplane will reach 99 percent of terminal velocity—approximately 122 miles per hour—within about fifteen seconds. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The care devoted to the selection of the above sample was not great, but at least the result, 8 percent, had a credible ring to it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm not a hundred percent sure, but I think she'd like to keep talking. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Treasury Department uses a computer model to examine the effects of tax cuts on various income groups but does not look in detail fine enough to differentiate among those within the top 1 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Foaly cut to the relevant area, increasing it by four hundred percent. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Once the oxygen dropped to 12 percent, I put the breather mask on. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, I was just thinking. Everything you said was right. Totally, one hundred percent right.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Baltimore City had a 70 percent dropout rate at the time. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z "In fact, your mom seems to agree a hundred percent with my mom. I think that's where my mom got the idea." Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Then I'll know how fast the storm is moving, at least in terms of percent power loss. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Or even, if I was being 110 percent honest, I’m a little scared of how I’m changing. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Wearing it in class when the teacher droned on about fractions and percents. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Then about Negroes, mulattoes, mestizos, whites, the illiteracy rate—over 50 percent—and malaria. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Flitwick told me in secret that I got a hundred and twelve percent on his exam. 'They’re not throwing me out after that.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Now, not counting Hispanics and Latinos who identified as white, Springfield was 37 percent white. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When I finally took the exam for my driver’s license, I got a hundred percent on the written section but barely passed the driving test. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z It’s been estimated that, because of the exponential growth of the world’s population, between 10 and 20 percent of all the human beings who have ever lived are alive now. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Our own surveys said at least fifty percent of the student body watched any given show. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z After she hung up on him at two a.m., after she’s gone 100 percent No Contact, he was absent for three days, and she’s almost surprised to see him. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z By the second of the street scenes, attention dropped to 80 percent. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When the number of incoming African Americans in a particular neighborhood reached a certain point — 20 percent, say — sociologists observed that the community would “tip”: most of the remaining whites would leave almost immediately. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Very few respondents called themselves lower class or upper class—7 percent and 1 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Approximately 80 percent of criminal defendants are indigent and thus unable to hire a lawyer. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But only 17 percent of those who had entered in the mid-1990s made the switch within five years, according to a separate study. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Black students made up less than 9 percent of my freshman class. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It’s too late to back out now, even if I wanted to, which I don’t—not 100 percent. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I heard Mother tell a room of devoted faces that sixty-five percent of Dad’s upper body had been burned to the third degree. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Assume further that .5 percent— one out of two hundred people—actually have cancer. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In Baltimore County, the number was as high as 85 percent in some years. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Out of 125 papyri recording contemporary legal cases, fully 20 percent involve personal squabbles between individual Greeks and Egyptians. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z If the storm is circular, I should get better and better efficiency every day until I'm back to 100 percent. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I decided that if he asked, I would 110 percent convert to Christianity for him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z By the summer of 2001, the overall rate had slipped to about 87 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z My lung function fell to 35 percent so quickly. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Third, 100 percent oxygen would not be used on the launch pad, at full atmospheric pressure, but would be used only in orbit, at one- third atmospheric pressure. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Another 10 percent, or 7,000, were under the supervision of a psychiatrist, “taking some drugs.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Surprisingly, however, a random sample of 747 death notices published in Salt Lake City, Utah, newspapers during 1977 indicated that 46 percent of the decedents surveyed died within the three- month period following their birthdays. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But that doesn’t mean Langan is 30 percent smarter than Einstein. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Ninety-five percent of the gunters who challenged him lost and were then killed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that, in seven states, African Americans constitute 80 to 90 percent of all those sent to prison on drug charges. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z According to a survey by Perales, 85 percent of the farmers plant the same maize landraces as their fathers, varieties that have been passed on and maintained for generations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His collection rate was about 95 percent; he attributed the underpayment to oversight, not fraud. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But when they privately conducted blind head-to-head taste tests of their own, they found the same thing: when asked to choose between Coke and Pepsi, the majority of tasters—57 percent—preferred Pepsi. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Ten percent of that is a dollar sixty. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She was at least 90 percent sure that Lauren would tell their dad about it, and even if she didn’t, Maya would never have asked her to keep such a big secret. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z That would be like arresting 90 percent of Los Angeles. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “I wasn’t trying to be passive-aggressive, Mama. It’s just been a long day. My brain isn’t running on a hundred percent.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z In a report, Agent Burger noted in frustration, “Gregg is 100 percent criminal and will tell as little as he can.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In any case, that only 3 percent of students responded suggested that there was a long way to go to reach the goal. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m ninety-nine percent sure he has no idea what all of us are doing in the lab anyway. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “What else can I tell you? The population is two point nine million. Between one and ten percent of people identify as Rastafarians. Twenty percent of Jamaicans live below the poverty line.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I had to stop myself then, and remember that Jennifer had a seventy percent crush on him. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Consider, too, the Dobynsesque procedure for recovering original population numbers: applying an assumed death rate, usually 95 percent, to the observed population nadir. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Almost immediately lead levels in the blood of Americans fell by 80 percent. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z You got to be a hundred percent confident to make it out. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As if in answer to her question, someone fell through the black square—it was Minho, looking as if he’d been scratched or stabbed on ninety percent of his body. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z His skin was covered with patches of scraggly red fur, though ninety percent of his body hair seemed to be concentrated in his magnificent eyebrows. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And by 2010, the figure had fallen to 10,228, a drop of 52 percent, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a division of the U.S. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She wanted us to know we could rely on her and my grandpa one hundred percent. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The immorality of the bantustan policy, whereby 70 percent of the people would be apportioned only 13 percent of the land, was obvious. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With all the practice, I was shooting a consistent 90 percent from the line. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The stock market had rebounded earlier in the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbing an all-time record of 15.34 percent in one day on March 15 to close at 62.10. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The income of the middle fifth rose by just 17 percent, to $43,700, and the income of the poorest fifth rose only 9 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Even a uranium bomb–the most energetic thing we have produced yet–releases less than 1 percent of the energy it could release if only we were more cunning. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Although rural counties contain only 20 percent of the U.S. population, 60 percent of new prison construction occurs there. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And exactly zero percent of the preschoolers read the letters from left to right. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d need a high score—a twenty-seven at least, which meant the top fifteen percent of my cohort. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Eliminating those unfamiliar with the Stooges’ slapstick, physical, lowbrow comedy, I found that an overwhelming 8 percent of my sample admitted to such an indulgence. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I would say he was down to forty-five percent. I’m not sure what percentage makes you toast, but he’s well on his way.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z About the only advice from the manual with which I agreed a hundred percent was: “Don’t eat toads.” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, it’s true. It was ten percent off, and then I got another fifteen percent for joining their email list.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Ninety percent of the As graduated from college and among them had earned 98 graduate degrees. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Doc: "I'm just saying that if you break it down, the burn covers less than one percent of her body." Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z They had said that they needed to do some shopping nearby, but Maya was 99 percent sure that they just wanted to scope her and Grace out for themselves. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Nixon’s approval rating rose to nearly 60 percent. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Only 5 percent of commercial pilots worldwide are women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z That second report found that 74 percent of homes had Internet, up from 47 percent in 1999. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, that number is 58 percent. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z When the random sample selected contains one thousand people, the theoretical 95 percent confidence interval for estimating the percentage who favor candidate X or dog food Y is about plus or minus 3 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “They say the odds are eighty percent that without GPS on that boat you should have died at sea,” he said. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In late 1998, a few months before Shin was assigned to the pig farm, the World Food Program conducted a nutrition survey of children, which covered seventy percent of North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Botha’s ruse did not fool the people, as more than 80 percent of eligible Indian and Coloured voters boycotted the election to the new houses of Parliament in 1984. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z About 70 percent of people with criminal records did not complete high school, and according to at least one study, about half are functionally illiterate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z His company boosted net income by 14 percent in 2008, and he fully expects the growth to continue. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A dress whose price has been “slashed” 40 percent and then another 40 percent has been reduced in price by 64 percent, not 80 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This 50 percent decline in police translated into a roughly equal decline in the probability that a given criminal would be caught. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Go up 1 percent to a 96 percent death rate and the figure jumps to 12.5 million—creating more than two million people arithmetically from a tiny increase in mortality rates. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I wasn’t one hundred percent sure what that involved, but I hoped Lula would know. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In the Times poll, 45 percent of respondents said they were in a higher class than when they grew up, while just 16 percent said they were in a lower one. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z According to one estimate, the corporate profits in military weapons procurement are 30 to 50 percent higher than in an equally technological but competitive civilian market. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A National Law Journal survey from the time found that in large firms African Americans made up not quite 3 percent of all associates and less than 1 percent of all partners. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Okay, maybe she wasn’t 100 percent sure that they could handle whatever came next. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z A subsequent study conducted by the attorney general of New Jersey found that searches on the turnpike were even more discriminatory than the initial stops—77 percent of all consent searches were of minorities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Every time I thought about that spelling test and not getting all ten words 100 percent perfect, I felt sick, right in my stomach. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z I am sure that Nattie and she would be behind me a hundred percent. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z His chance of survival might be a hundred percent—or zero. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “I’m not one hundred percent consistent about everything,” he concedes. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I heard him talking about the game, how Latimer had to put out a hundred and ten percent, that old-time movie bull. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z The other 20 percent was just keeping your head down. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z If he watches a couple for fifteen minutes, his success rate is around 90 percent. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Nine months after the passage of Proposition 21,30 percent of all teen offenders in California were being charged as adults. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In reality, Jews numbered about 523,000 out of a population of 67 million people in Germany, less than 1 percent. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But there’s that fraction of a percent chance that he’s not. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z A study of urban black fathers found that only 28 percent had access to an automobile. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She has her usual one hundred percent, but that doesn’t bother me a bit. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z She didn’t take me 100 percent seriously, but she helped me anyway. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Twenty percent of Kerala’s population were Syrian Christians, who believed that they were descendants of the one hundred Brahmins whom St. Thomas the Apostle converted to Christianity when he traveled East after the Resurrection. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I agree only because there’s a zero percent chance I’ll make it home before dinner. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He got a head like a Martian—his head takes up about sixty percent of his natural body weight! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Close to 46 percent of the city's children were living below the federal poverty level. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Diem claimed to have won a ludicrous 98.2 percent of the vote; in Saigon, he somehow received more votes than there were registered voters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Dad has scheduled Madame Rubenstein to come three times a week until the recital, to make sure I’m 100 percent ready. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z In some states, such as Ohio, as many as 90 percent of children charged with criminal wrongdoing are not represented by a lawyer. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Even the plant instructor in the Training Center made a point of telling us to avoid berries unless you were 100 percent sure they weren't toxic. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z For reference, Earth's atmosphere is about 21 percent. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Like maybe she knew I wasn’t being 100 percent truthful. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z After these facts were established, a joint commission cut Canada’s claim by over eighty-five percent. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z When I arrived at Santa Rosa, I didn't encounter any staff who were people of color, although 70 percent of the men incarcerated there were black or brown. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “I’m like ninety-seven-point-two percent sure. I mean, I’m pretty sure his bedroom is right there,” she said, pointing. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Unable to feed its people, unemployment soars to more than 50 percent. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z In most societies, 20 percent of criminals commit 80 percent of crimes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For a week now it’s been a hundred degrees and ninety-nine percent humidity. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Dane, fully flesh and blood, but one hundred percent of nothing. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “If things neural were going swimmingly with Vi, the number you detect would be about ninety- eight percent.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For Japanese twelfth graders, the answer was 92 percent. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z One hundred percent premium deluxe made in Ghana! Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z At least 90 percent of these pedestrians are quite unknown to us. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Yet by 1987, when the drug war hit high gear, the industrial employment of black men had plummeted to 28 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, the 24/7 customer call center gets about seven hundred applications a day, but only 6 percent of applicants are hired. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Sixty-one percent had no full-time certified arts teacher. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z If a writer believes that 90 percent of the evidence and argument supports a position, then something like 90 percent of the discussion should be devoted to the reasons for believing it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Census Bureau reported in 2002 that there are nearly 3 million more black adult women than men in black communities across the United States, a gender gap of 26 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z More than 90 percent of the school’s nine hundred students were black or from an ethnic minority; a fifth of them were the children of immigrants or asylum seekers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z New York, where almost 75 percent of the state’s revenue had come from liquor taxes, was particularly hard hit. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In 1910, the last census before World War I recorded that 90 percent of the nation’s blacks were living in the South. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z More than 80 percent returned to state custody within three years of getting out. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Okay, I knew nothing about dances and had planned zero percent of this one. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z He served as Baltimore’s state’s attorney for four years and at age thirty-eight was elected the first African-American mayor of Baltimore City, which at the time was over 60 percent black. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Jake was the type of trainer that no matter what mood I was in or how much I might complain, he wouldn’t accept anything less than 100 percent in every workout. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “He is partially crazy, yes. He is maybe seventy-six percent crazy.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In 1960, a full 75 percent of the foreign-born population residing in the United States was from Europe. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z By modern times, only one percent of the continent was free of ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Then he looked at the jacket, and Nathan was 100 percent certain it was Uncle Jet’s. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z No one had forgotten how in 1885 fouled water had ignited an outbreak of cholera and typhoid that killed ten percent of the city’s population. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z His winning average of 19 percent ranked him in a tie for sixteenth among fully employed riders. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The algorithm guessed right more than 95 percent of the time. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In the early nineties when my family and I arrived in Maplewood, the city was approximately 59 percent white and 33 percent Black. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z As you would expect, the kids in the room without the toys watched the show about 87 percent of the time, while the kids with the toys watched only about 47 percent of the show. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the event, the sedimentary layer was 50 percent deeper than expected and the basaltic layer was never found at all. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Many nonprofits consumed 20 to 25 percent of their donations for overhead. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z "All right, if you used the other eighty percent—" "Checking," Martinez said, running the numbers on his console. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Seventy percent of all eastern bird species have seen population declines since the 1960s. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Approximately a half-million people are in prison or jail for a drug offense today, compared to an estimated 41,100 in 1980—an increase of 1,100 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was cute, and Jennifer had a seventy percent crush on him, she admitted. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z On the night of Thursday, May 5, officials of the National Cordage Company, a trust that controlled 80 percent of America’s rope production, placed itself in receivership. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It found that people were spending 26 percent less time in each session. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Bureaucrats, party officials, army officers, and other well-placed government elites ended up stealing about thirty percent of the aid, according to estimates by outside scholars and international aid agencies. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But even after she had given away 55 percent of her wealth, Grace was still the richest twelve-year-old in the world. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The unemployment rate for young black men post-apartheid shot up, sometimes as high as 50 percent. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Fully 60 percent of all young black men who drop out of high school will go to jail. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “The man in charge was Igbo, and Madu said he was keen to give the contract to a fellow Igbo. So I was lucky. And he’s asking only for a five percent cut.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z An analysis of the entire Chicago data reveals evidence of teacher cheating in more than two hundred classrooms per year, roughly 5 percent of the total. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z As World War I came to an end, Washington, DC, which was about 75 percent white, was a racial tinderbox, an explosion waiting to happen. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He found little difference in pregnancy rates or school drop-out rates in neighborhoods of between 40 and 5 percent of high- status workers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If I don’t get home soon, my mom will have a one hundred percent total breakdown. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z To his amazement, 20 percent of the healthy patients soon developed mild cases of the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z But Link seems to be 100 percent serious about learning his part for December 4. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z But here, at Chester, as long as your face is selfie-ready 100 percent of the time, you got a chance. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Dr. Mel told me that in some pens the figure runs as high as 70 percent. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The other 20 percent you hoped would never come your way. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z It made my stomach turn —- the DNA in that meat was almost 99 percent the same as human DNA; it was nearly cannibalism. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The story said that random urine tests had shown that 21 percent of Sing Sing inmates were on drugs, compared to a statewide prison average of 6 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the state’s 9,304 square miles of territory, some 85 percent—an area somewhat larger than Wales—is woods, and nearly all the rest is either lakes or above treeline. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They demanded excellence, but they created a life for us where we could focus 100 percent on our studies and sports. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The Waffen-SS supplied the greatest number of commandos—about 34 percent. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z |
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