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110 example sentences for PER, such as:
1. Electricity is ten pence per unit.
2. You must allow for five per cent wastage in transit.
3. Eighty per cent of sewage is piped directly into the sea.
4. The brain accounts for merely three per cent of body weight.
5. The charge for my board at Hampton was ten dollars per month.
2. You must allow for five per cent wastage in transit.
3. Eighty per cent of sewage is piped directly into the sea.
4. The brain accounts for merely three per cent of body weight.
5. The charge for my board at Hampton was ten dollars per month.
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Meanings and Examples of PER
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per
prep. for each; by means of;
Classic Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1 unum per disceptationem, alterum per vim; cumque illud.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In CHAPTER XVIII(*) — CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH PRINCES SH...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER XVIII(*) — CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH PRINCES SH...
2 Seventeen per cent were clergymen; another seventeen per cent were in the professions, chiefly as physicians.
3 Over six per cent were merchants, farmers, and artisans, and four per cent were in the government civil-service.
4 Perhaps ten per cent compose the well-to-do and the best of the laborers, while at least nine per cent are thoroughly lewd and vicious.
5 The rest, over eighty per cent, are poor and ignorant, fairly honest and well meaning, plodding, and to a degree shiftless, with some but not great sexual looseness.
6 Only ten per cent of the adult population was born in the county, and yet the blacks outnumber the whites four or five to one.
7 A "submerged tenth" of croppers, with a few paupers; forty per cent who are metayers and thirty-nine per cent of semi-metayers and wage-laborers.
8 The average metayer pays from twenty to thirty per cent of his crop in rent.
9 The renters for fixed money rentals are the first of the emerging classes, and form five per cent of the families.
10 Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.
11 My work pleased the captain so well that he told me if I desired I could continue working for a small amount per day.
12 The charge for my board at Hampton was ten dollars per month.
13 I saw other young men who received seventy-five or one hundred dollars per month from the Government, who were in debt at the end of every month.
14 We learned that about eighty-five per cent of the coloured people in the Gulf states depended upon agriculture for their living.
15 Effort or means so invested will pay a thousand per cent interest.
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1 The color of the shell per se does not affect the quality of the egg.
2 You must allow for five per cent wastage in transit.
3 Now is the time for the Chancellor to take the bull by the horns and announce a two per cent cut in interest rates.
4 The authors' argument is not with the free market per se but with the western society in which it works.
5 Their research shows that the average individual watches around three and a half hours of television per day.
6 Fifteen per cent of the population attend a place of worship.
7 One per cent of total public spending should eventually go towards the arts.
8 Electricity is ten pence per unit.
9 We can calculate the price per unit along the following lines: However, this only yields an average selling price.
10 The brain accounts for merely three per cent of body weight.
11 Due to unforeseen circumstances the cost of the improvements has risen by twenty per cent.
12 Some analysts estimate its current popularity at around ten per cent.
13 Eighty per cent of sewage is piped directly into the sea.
14 The drug is not harmful per se, but is dangerous when taken with alcohol.
15 France and Germany invest far more per capita in public transport than Britain.