(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).
Went
Definition:
(imp.) of Go
() of Wend
() imp. & p. p. of Wend; -- now obsolete except as the imperfect of go, with which it has no etymological connection. See Go.
(n.) Course; way; path; journey; direction.
Example Sentences:
(1) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
(2) The district’s $110bn of economic activity went up by 22% since 2007, outpacing city growth by 9% during the same period.
(3) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
(4) BT Sport went down this route, appointing Channel 4 Sales, the TV ad sales house that represents the broadcaster and partners including UKTV.
(5) The majority of the hearts went spontaneously into ventricular fibrillation at some stage of the operation.
(6) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
(7) His mother, meanwhile, had to issue Peyton with a series of polaroids of his own clothes showing him which ones went together.
(8) It was sent into the box and Jaap Stam's free header went towards Kaka at the far post.
(9) The local guide led us down a rough, uneven pathway, talking as he went.
(10) FBI assistant director David Bowdich said that Syed Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, were radicalized long before they went on a rampage at a community center in southern California last Wednesday, but would not specify whether he meant months or years.
(11) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
(12) The stiffness of the fibre first rose abruptly in response to stretch and then started to decrease linearly while the stretch went on; after the completion of stretch the stiffness decreased towards a steady value which was equal to that during the isometric tetanus at the same sarcomere length, indicating that the enhancement of isometric force is associated with decreased stiffness.
(13) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
(14) I went to a reasonably good school, though I think I hated the headmaster just as much as he hated me.
(15) So when President Obama went before his country on Wednesday, this is the context in which what he had to say about his plans should be considered.
(16) Aitken was subsequently declared bankrupt and went to prison.
(17) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
(18) I'll admit to not having realised that more than £100bn would be committed to Trident – I half-remembered reading that it would cost £20bn, so went online, only to discover that the higher figure checks out .
(19) To this day, 10 patients (31%) are alive with a functioning kidney transplant, 16 (50%) are still treated by CPD awaiting a transplant, 5 have died (16%) and one went back to hemodialysis (3%).
(20) They said it shows Bergdahl, now 27, in poorer health than previous footage taken in the years since he went missing in Afghanistan on 30 June 2009.