not a hundred percent

percent | American Dictionary

percent
adverb[ not gradable ]
(alsoper cent)us/pərˈsent/(abbreviationpct); (symbol%)
for or out of every 100:
You got 20 percent of the answers right.
Only 48% of registered voters actually voted in the election.

percent | Business English

percent
noun[ S ]
 MEASURESuk /pəˈsent/us
one part of every 100, or the specified amount of something divided by 100:
Business customers account for about 70 percent of the computing company's revenue.
by 3/50/100, etc. percentThe bank needed to reduce its workforce by 20 percent.
→ percentage:
as a percent of sthOperating income as a percent of sales increased slightly from the previous year.
percent
adverb
(UK alsoper cent)uk /pəˈsent/us
for or out of every 100, often shown by the symbol %:
Shares fell 6 percent after the group warned profits would be lower than expected.

percent

adjective
Unions urged workers to reject the 1.5 percent pay offer.

Examples of percent

percent
Wide ranges (+30 percent of the point estimates) were used to account for the uncertainty surrounding these cost estimates.
In seven percent of the cases, the sinus nodal artery took origin from a separate orifice within the same sinus as a major coronary artery.
Ten percent of all utterances were re-coded by the first author and a point-by-point comparison was made with a second coder.
Ninety-five percent of the patients for whom revascularization was preferred received the treatment.
No significant group differences were found in body mass index and percent body fat.
Once the utilization became greater than 82.3 percent, the automated system became dominant, that is, both less costly and more effective.
An interesting question is whether an inflation threshold, for example, of 10 percent is significantly different from a threshold of 8 percent or 15 percent.
Percentage indicates the percent of all overlaps calculated.
Two acoustic measures of consonant overlap are considered: percent released and duration ratio.
Diagnostic applications were most frequently reported (28 percent), followed by therapeutic prediction (22 percent), preventive prediction (18 percent), pharmacogenetics (16 percent), and screening (16 percent).
Thirteen percent of caregivers met criteria for a psychiatric disorder; 25% accessed treatment for mental health concerns since the patient's cancer diagnosis.
Eleven percent were lost to follow-up and the study lacked a control group.
Eleven percent had taken a tranquillizer, antidepressant or sleeping tablet, and all these compounds had been prescribed by a doctor.
Of the 273 executive appointments, 182 (or 66.7 percent) went to lame-duck members of the president's party.
Data are expressed as numbers (percent) unless indicated otherwise.
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