(n.) A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.
(n.) A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.
(n.) An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(2) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
(3) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
(4) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
(5) Eighty-two per cent of patients with falciparum malaria had recently returned from Africa whereas 82% with vivax malaria had visited Asia.
(6) In more than 70 per cent of these, brain injury is the decisive lethal factor.
(7) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
(8) Of the 138 patients who were admitted to the study, only seventy-one (51 per cent) could be followed for an average of 3.5 years (a typical return rate of urban trauma centers).
(9) Of the sampled population, 6.3 per cent exhibited some degree of hypodontia (third molar agenesis excluded).
(10) Eighty-five per cent of the patients had been on beta-blocker treatment for more than 1 year.
(11) Ninety-five per cent were suffering from chiasmal compression pre-operatively.
(12) We studied the effect of a 2-hour exposure to 0.6 ppm of ozone on bronchial reactivity in 8 healthy, nonsmoking subjects by measuring the increase in airway resistance (Raw) produced by inhalation of histamine diphosphate aerosol (1.6 per cent, 10 breaths).
(13) Lambing rates approach 1.5 lambs per ewe per year, but a death rate of 23 per cent and an offtake of 27 per cent, means that flock numbers are probably slightly declining.
(14) The remaining 33 sera (13.3 per cent) were classified as low, moderate or strong positives.
(15) Couples applying to in vitro fertilization were admitted into this project when the sperm concentration was greater than 20 million per mL and motility greater than 30 per cent.
(16) Furthermore, the effect of immunization was examined in monkeys previously given fluoride in their diet and which had developed a low incidence of dental caries when offered a human type of diet containing about 15 per cent sucrose.
(17) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
(18) During anaesthesia with 60-70 per cent N2O in O2 and 0.2 per cent isoflurane, a maintenance dose (MD) of fentanyl was administered using a continuous variable-rate IV fentanyl infusion, supplemented by intermittent 50 micrograms IV boluses.
(19) It was found that the initial rate of [14C]oxalate absorption is rapid (6.5 per cent per min), and that after 5 min the rate of absorption decreases to about 0.6 per cent per min.
(20) The adjusted odds ratio of having one or more hospitalization for current drinkers relative to life-long abstainers in females was 0.67 (95 per cent confidence interval 0.57-0.79) and in males was 0.74 (0.57-0.96).
Centurion
Definition:
(n.) A military officer who commanded a minor division of the Roman army; a captain of a century.
Example Sentences:
(1) As he is scrawling the words "Romanes eunt domus," a centurion apprehends him.
(2) That was until July 1977, when Mary Whitehouse, self-appointed guardian of national morals, won a blasphemy libel case against Gay News for publishing a poem about a Roman centurion's homoerotic leanings towards the crucified Christ.
(3) Jain also announced the channel's first UK-originated scripted comedy, Plebs, which is set in ancient Rome and described by the broadcaster as "like The Inbetweeners, with centurions".
(4) "As a result, all of England's first three centurions (Billy Wright 105, Bobby Moore 108, Bobby Charlton 106*) racked up their tally as starters, so Ashley has a bit to do to catch them, and Baines is knocking on the door …" * Not entirely true, Andy – Bobby Charlton came on in the 33rd minute of England's 10-0 victory over the USA in New York in May 1964, his 53rd cap.
(5) Ibori also bought a fleet of luxury cars, and in three years ran up £920,000 on his American Express Centurion card – a card only available to the super-rich, Wass told the court.
(6) Lampard has been a stalwart for his country and, like Gerrard, will depart as a centurion.
(7) Could you drive a Centurion 2 battle tank into the heart of the action?
(8) The coach, who is stepping down after seven years in charge also namechecked two other centurions who are retiring from the international scene, the goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson and the midfield string-puller Kim Kallstrom.
(9) The 37-year-old achieved the feat, and also passed 14,500 Test runs, as India battled to make South Africa bat again in the first Test in Centurion.
(10) Interests Leigh Centurions rugby league club, Everton football club, playing the guitar, indie music.
(11) Versus Vs Versus, which preceded The Last Stand to Reason, featured Roman centurions, new age hippies, and a father and daughter on the run.
(12) It's the way history has been taught in British schools ever since the advent of the schools history project in the 1970s and the rejection of historical knowledge in favour of "source analysis" and "child-centered" learning ("Imagine you are a Roman centurion …").
(13) South Africa picked up the last two India wickets in the first 30 minutes of day five of the first Test at Centurion to secure victory by an innings and 25 runs.
(14) The South Africa captain, Graeme Smith, hailed his bowlers for setting up an emphatic victory after the hosts defeated India by an innings and 25 runs in the first Test at Centurion.
(15) The list of Oranje centurions is an impressive one.