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n. 百分比，百分率；部分；百分数
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Seventy-four percent of the respondents surveyed report a good to excellent expectation of real-estate profitability in 2015.

In a study last year, of all people surveyed, 48 percent said they wanted to ride in one, while 50 percent did notThe fact that attitudes toward self-driving cars appear to be so steady across generations suggests how transformative the shift to driverless cars could be.

College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or lessWhere a person lives matters, toIt will not necessarily reduce road accidents.

Seventy percent of girls aged 10 to 18 report that they define perfect body image based on what they see in magazines.

E-books now account for 14 percent of all book sales in the country and are increasing far faster than overall book sales.

E-book sales are up 146 percent over last year, while hardback sales increased 6 percent and paperbacks decreased 8 percent.

In 1970, a national survey showed that 37 percent of the people questioned felt their privacy was being invaded.

Seven years later, 47 percent expressed the same worry

A recent survey by a credit bureau revealed that the number of alarmed citizens had shot up to 76 percent.

It accounts for 80 percent of the region's GDP.

I am not a mathematician, but I assume the rise from 70p to 90p is a rise of 25 percent.

Fifty percent of them were female

"A well-displayed meal is enhanced one hundred percent in my eyes," he later wrote in one of his cook books.

About 35 percent of the heat taken in by the oceans during the industrial era now resides at a depth of more than 700 meters, the researchers found.

According to data released in January 2017, 56 percent of bills are paid online, which means that just under half of payments still rely on delivery services to be completed.

According to the World Health Organization, 80 percent of deaths from heart disease and stroke are caused by high blood pressure, tobacco use, elevated cholesterol and low consumption of fruits and vegetables.

Among her respondents, 54 percent of those who were clinically depressed said that knitting made them feel happy or very happy.

And only 5 percent of our food is plant-based food.

But this can be chalked up to the excessively high cost of their books—which has increased over 1, 000 percent since 1977.

College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school d

Correct! A hundred percent of our raw material comes from Romania.

Even though they see going to college as a fairly achievable goal, a majority—52 percent—think that young people do not need a four-year college education in order to be successful.

In America, over 50 percent of our food is processed food.

In fact, the developer says, 99 percent of the homes here are sold to Koreans.

Perception of sweet and salty foods dropped by almost individuals percent in a simulation of air travel.

Seventy-four percent of the respondents surveyed report a" good to excellent" expectation of real-estate profitability in 2015.

Seventy-four percent of the women said the activity lessened their fears and kept them from thinking about their problem.

Songdo's backers contend that it's still early, and business space is filling up—about 70 percent of finished offices are now occupied.

The amount of nicotine that's delivered in every cigarette is 10 percent higher than it was six years ago, which means that it's easier to get hooked and harder to quit.

They had a less than 3 percent chance of catching the flu.

Thirty years after he imagined the city, Park's baby is close to 70 percent built, with 36.

Retailers make the most money this time of a year, about 20 to 30 percent of annual revenue.

Only 13 percent of respondents said that they were interested in buying a smartwatch in 2016, for example – an increase of just one percent from the previous year despite a year of high-profile launches.

For example, when asked whether they would buy a new smartphone this year, only 48 percent said yes – a six-point drop from 2015.

Even among people who have bought connected devices of some kind, 37 percent said that they are going to be more cautious about using these devices and services in the future.

A full 18 percent have even returned devices until they feel they can get safer guarantees against having their sensitive information hacked.

Of the 46 beverages endorsed by professional athletes, 93 percent relied exclusively on sugar for all of their calories.

What Nijay didn't realize about his school—Tennessee State University — was its frighteningly low graduation rate: a mere 29 percent for its first-generation students.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is much lower than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years ( ' , 81 percent).

Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first-generation students and those of their peers.

It is one thing to say that we are going to shift 30 percent of our electricity supply from, say, coal to nuclear power in 20 years.

For all the new attention devoted to the 1 percent, a new dataset from the Equality of Opportunity Project at Harvard and Berkeley suggests that, if we care about upward mobility overall, we're vastly exaggerating the dangers of the rich-poor gap.

A flagship university in the South, the school graduates just 16 percent of its first-generation students, despite its overall graduation rate of 71 percent.

5 percent of the second group thought so.

( ' , Harvard, for example, boasts a six-year graduation rate for underrepresented minority groups of 98 percent)Christian Vazquez, a first-generation Yale graduate, is another exception, his success story setting him far apart from students such as Nijay.

Are people suffering from gadget overload? Are they exhausted by the consumer equivalent of the brain fatigue—information overload—that is caused by constant updates of devices and online media?As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.

According to Adam Marchick, CEO of mobile marketing company Kahuna, less than 15 percent of smartphone users ever bother to adjust their notification settings—meaning the remaining 85 percent of us default to the app makers' every preset trigger.

All researches agree that close to 25 billion devices, things and sensors will be connected by 2020 which incidentally is also the moment that millennials are expected to make up 75 percent of our overall workforce, and the fully connected home will becom

Almost half of the sites didn't get a passing grade and only 18 percent got an A or B.

And then at adulthood, IFPri has actually demonstrated that children who were better nourished have higher wages, by a pretty large margin, by 46 percent.

As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn't good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.

But when two H-bots became imperiled, the robot choked 42 percent of the time, unable to decide which to save and letting them both.

Even among people who have bought connected devices of some kind, 37 percent said that they are going to be more cautious about using these devices and services in the future.

Even though Spooner screams "Save her! Save her!", the robot rescues him because it calculates that he has a 45 percent chance of survival compared to Sarah's 11 percent.

I increased the number of people following my accounts by fifteen percent already.

In the United States, up to forty percent of all food goes uneaten, despite the fact that one in seven American households lacks regular access to good food.

It was an increase that was on a small base of 6.9 percent.

Looking only at that 15.2 percent surge would be misleading.

More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016.

Mott survey found among the 56 percent of mothers and 34 percent of fathers who discussed parenting on social media, 72 percent of them said sharing made them feel less alone, and nearly as many said sharing helped them worry less and gave them advice fro

Older adolescents scored about 50 percent higher on an index of risky driving when their peers were in the room — and the driving of early adolescents was fully twice as reckless when other young teens were around.

Only 13 percent of respondents said that they were interested in buying a smartwatch in 2016, for example – an increase of just one percent from the previous year despite a year of high-profile launches.

Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016.

Harvard, for example, boasts a six-year graduation rate for underrepresented minority groups of 98 percent.

The Burean of Labor Statistics projects that while the number of nurses will increase by 19 percent by 2022, demand will grow faster than supply, and that there will be over one million unfilled nursing jobs by then.

The lake's landscape is bizarre and deadly—and made even more so by the fact that it's the place where nearly 75 percent of the world's flamingos are born.

The remaining 20 percent of the Palau seas will be reserved for local fishing by individuals and small-scale commercial fishing businesses with limited exports.

The scientists are breeding successive generations to arrive at varieties that incorporate salt tolerance but retain about 97 percent of the European rice genome.

The study's report states that as global warming transforms the environment in the world's last great wilderness, 70 percent of king penguins could either disappear or be forced to find new breeding grounds.

The tiny island nation has set aside 500, 000 square kilometers 80 percent—of its maritime territory, for full protection.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is "much lower" than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years 81 percent.

Their data show that only 0.8 percent of retail sales shifted from offline to online between the beginning of 2015 and 2016.

Those spending 10-19 hours per week on their devices were 41 percent more likely to be unhappy than lower-frequency users.

Today's demographics show that the middle class is disappearing and now the richest one percent of the population has amassed more wealth than the bottom 90 percent.

We're looking at roughly 80 percent loss of ice cover on the Arctic Ocean in 10 years, roughly 10 years, and 100 percent loss in nearly 20 years.

Yet Walmart's year-over-year online sales only grew 7 percent, leading its CEO to lament, "Growth here is too slow."

Yet, when you look at their numbers or percentages on the revenue-generating sports teams of football and basketball, they make up well into 50 and 60 percent of those teams.

A new report found 46 percent of meals are eaten alone in America.

About thirty percent of the world's exports of tea makes its way to London.

According to London underground, only 40 percent of travelers walk the full length of long escalators, leaving the majority at the bottom as they wait to get on to the "standing "side.

According to the report's key findings, the proportion who say they ‘hardly ever' read for fun has gone from 8 percent of 13-year-olds.

According to the world bank, China accounts for about 30 percent of total global fertilizer consumption.

And doubling a buffet's price led customers to say that its pizza was 11 percent tastier.

And we'll pour about 30 percent more liquid into a short, wide glass than a tall, skinny glass.

Another simple way of building some savings is by depositing as little as two percent of your monthly income into a savings account.

At the start of this year, foreigners living in italy amounted to 4.56 million of a total population of 60.6 million, or 7.5 percent, with immigrants’ children accounting for an ever larger percentage of births in italy.

Corn production has jumped nearly 125 percent over the past 25 years, while rice has increased only 7 percent.

Half of the workers say their boss doesn't accept it, and only 35 percent say it's tolerated.

If you're lucky enough to land such an accommodation, though, be sure you're 100 percent on time.

In America the demand for oil has grown by 22 percent since 1990.

In one study, people who ate meals in a blue room consumed 33 percent less than those in a yellow or red room.

In the sierra high country, the number of big trees has fallen by more than 55 percent; in parts of southern California the decline was nearly 75 percent.

It also asked mothers about the challenges they face, with 80 percent making emotional demand as the hardest thing about motherhood.

It is said that body language accounts for 55 percent of a first impression while what you say just 7 percent.

More than half (53 percent) have breakfast alone and nearly half (46 percent) have lunch by themselves.

Nearly 40 percent of Jazz lovers live outside of the Dallas city limits and drive or fly in to enjoy an evening in the Bishop Arts district.

Only at dinnertime are we eating together anymore, 74 percent, according to statistics from the report.

Pupils at about 90 percent of British secondary schools wear uniforms.

Sixty-four percent of those survey participants who havens worked remotely would rather give up some bonus in order to get even one day a week working from home.

Take visual hints that influence what we eat: diners served themselves about 20 percent more pasta when their plates matched their food.

That t-shirt is normally sixty dollars, but we are offering a ten percent discount.

The graph is commonly used to show percentages; the whole pie represents l00 percent, so each piece is a fraction of the whole.

The number of smokers, as is reported, has dropped by 17 percent in just one year.

The number of trees larger than two feet across has declined by 50 percent on more than 46, 000 square miles of California forests, the new study finds.

We eat about 22 percent more when using a 12-inch plate instead of a 10-inch plate.

When we choose a large spoon over a smaller one, total intake jumps by 14 percent.

You may feel all the training a waste of time, but I'm a hundred percent sure later you'll be grateful you did it.

factories of Honda Nissan, and Toyota achieved about 95 percent of the productivity of their Japanese countere pants a result of the training that U.

This development is boosting wholesale demand from the food service segment by 4 to 5 percent a year across Europe, compared with growth in retail demand of 1 to 2 percent.

The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000 and is expected to approach 38 percent by 2005.

For example, wholesale food and drink sales came to $268 billion in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in 2000—more than 40 percent of retail sales.

There's no change to collective bargaining at the USPS, a major omission considering that personnel accounts for 80 percent of the agency's costs.

And a survey conducted for BuzzFeed News found 44 percent of Facebook users rarely or never trust news from the media giant.

According to a study by Catalyst, between 2010 and 2015 the share of women on the boards of global corporations increased by 54 percent.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 80 percent of college students end up changing their majors at least once.

Across 18 trials each, the living rats were 52 percent more likely on average to set the social robot free than the asocial one.

And a survey conducted for Buzz Feed News found 44 percent of Facebook users rarely or never trust news from the media giant.

And employers are planning on hiring about 17 percent more new graduates for jobs in the U.S.

But even now, 54 percent of the jobs in the country are middle-skill jobs, such as construction and high-skill manufacturing.

But historically we have spent about 12 percent of our days contemplating the longer term.

But only 44 percent of workers are adequately trained.

But that message did not play well with many in Iowa, where wind turbines dot the fields and provide 36 percent of the state's electricity generation – and where tech giants like Microsoft are being attracted by the availability of clean energy to power t

But the article is actually quite optimistic, as it outlines a potential solution to this problem, suggesting that an approach can close 63 percent of the achievement gap between first-generation and other students.

For example, wholesale food and drink sales came to $268 billion in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in 2000— more than 40 percent of retail sales.

From 1998 to 2000, 14.5 percent of the fruit Americans consumed was imported.

given the current divorce rate of nearly 50 percent, that amounts to millions of cases in the United States every year—a virtual epidemic of failed conversation.

Haddad and Lewis are concerned that more than half the state-government boards are less than 40 percent female.

If the bills become law, state boards and commissions will be required to set aside 50 percent of board seats for women by 2022.

In a 2012 survey, 71 percent of tree-fruit growers and almost 80 percent of raisin and berry growers said they were short of labor.

In March, for the first time, wind and solar power accounted for more than 10 percent of the power generated in the US, reported the US Energy Information Administration.

In Scotland, for example, wind turbines provide enough electricity to power 95 percent of homes.

Indeed, women hold only 14 percent of positions on Europe corporate boards.

little more than a decade later, the share of imports was 25.8 percent.

Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported for June, along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent, as good news.

Most of the first-generation students were recipients of Pell Grants, a federal grant for undergraduates with financial need, while this was true only for 8.6 percent of the students with at least one parent with a four-year degree.

One Gallup poll found that 20 percent of Americans who have been unemployed for at least a year report having depression, double the rate for working Americans.

One survey from Accenture found that 88 percent of graduating seniors this year chose their major with a job in mind.

People who perceived greater social support were less likely to come down with a cold, and the researchers calculated that the stress-reducing effects of hugging explained about 32 percent of that beneficial effect.

Psychologists at the University of Toronto found that viewing a fast-food logo for just a few milliseconds primes us to read 20 percent faster, even though reading has little to do with eating.

She found that mothers who used devices during the exercise started 20 percent fewer verbal and 39 percent fewer nonverbal interactions with their children.

The cost of solar panels has dropped by 80 percent and the cost of wind turbines by close to one-third in the past eight years.

The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000and is expected to approach 38

While fossil fuels – coal, oil, gas – still generate roughly 85 percent of the world's energy supply, it's clearer than ever that the future belongs to renewable sources such as wind and solar.

Yet the research revealed that the U.S. factories of Honda Nissan, and Toyota achieved about 95 percent of the productivity of their Japanese counterparts a result of the training that U.S. workers received on the job.