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Over the past 12 months, the number of unemployed persons has increased by 2.8 million, and the unemployment rate has risen by 1.7 per-centage points.

There's much to do: let's start saving lives our ownselves 2008

It is ironic that forty years after Johnson started his war on poverty this country now has a higher per-centage of the population living in poverty, but we've managed to increase the number of millionaires eight-fold.

Millionaires and Poverty 2006

Minor hockey registration and the per-centage of Canadian-born players in the NHL were both on the decline.

The NHL and Hockey in Canada 2002

A fractional per-centage might tell more for one system than a very large integral one for another.

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms 2003

A good per-centage got muddled and did the opposite of what they'd been ordered, and when they got muddled, they generally confused those who were trying to obey the orders correctly.

Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

The informers were both shrewd sensible men of business; they did not affect to be actuated by a sense of justice, but required a per-centage upon so much as government should actually recover through their means.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

A small but increasing per-centage have already had as much liquid refreshment as is good for them, and intend to have more.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 8, 1891 Various

The per-centage recovered on the sluice plates, of the total yield, varies, and has been as follows: -- October, 9.1 per cent; November, 6.9 per cent;

Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students

Although these rates of duty may be considered high enough, they are in reality very much more than that per-centage, because the duty is charged by the authorities on a very high fixed valuation, or on the _ad valorem_ principle, which actually is equivalent to increasing the rates of duty, were that only charged upon the actual market price.

Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking

_Mem. _ for pipers -- French tobacco contains the greatest, Turkish the least, per-centage of nicotine.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings