7 sentences with 'cent'
Example sentences and phrases with the word cent and other words derived from it.
• « To avoid dehydration, you should not lose more than two per cent of your body weight after exercise. »
• « A recent study of 6,000 middle-aged men in the United States found that those who ate fish almost every day were 36 per cent less likely to die of heart disease. »
• « Ninety-six per cent of the Prussian army's more than 170,000 soldiers were lost, the vast majority (some 140,000) taken prisoner by the French. »
• « Other scientists followed his example and, by the end of the century, deaths in Europe from infectious diseases were reduced by sixty per cent, mainly thanks to improvements in hygiene (antibiotics would not be developed until the late 1920s). »
• « Specifically, imperialism refers to the enormous growth of European empires in the 19th century, culminating in the pre-World War I period in which European powers controlled more than 80 per cent of the world's land area. »
• « In the 1830s, 40 per cent of the total value of India's exports took the form of opium, leading to the outbreak of the first major war between a European power, namely Britain, and the Chinese empire. »