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Short sentences using per

They'll pay ten per cent. [5]
Five per cent. [5]

Sentences containing per two or more times

At $10 per ton, or $100 per car, which would be a fair price for the distance by rail, the freight bill would amount to $180,000, or $162,000 more by rail than by river. [5]
I proved to them that in a quarter of a century their wages had advanced but 30 per cent., while the cost of living had gone up 100; and that with us, in a shorter time, wages had advanced 40 per cent. [5]
The conveyance from Star City (its locality) to Virginia City will cost seventy dollars per ton; from Virginia to San Francisco, forty dollars per ton; from thence to Liverpool, its destination, ten dollars per ton. [5]
Now the Postmaster-General says he cannot give to this company more than two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents per railroad mile of transportation, and twelve and a half per cent. [7]
I've a mighty poor financial head, and I may be all wrong--but tell me if I am wrong in supposing that in lending my own firm money at 6 per cent I pay 4 of it myself and so really get only a per cent? [5]
For this work, pay one dollar and fifty cents per "thousand" for composition, and one dollar and fifty cents per "token" for press-work, in greenbacks. [5]
There are five or six shareholders in it, and I know I could buy half of their interests at, say $20 per foot, now that flour is worth $50 per barrel and they are pressed for money. [5]
His average was one man and nearly all of another man per month for forty years, but Futty Khan's average was two men and a little of another man per month during his twenty years of usefulness. [5]
Could England, in her wars with Napoleon, bear an income-tax of ten per cent., and must we faint under the burden of an income-tax of three per cent.? [6]
The quantity was gradually and regularly increased, according to the needs and capacities of the patient, until by and by you would find him disposing of his one grape per second all the day long, and his regular barrel per day. [5]

More example sentences with the word per in them

Do exactly as you please with the land--always remember this--that so trivial a percentage as ten per cent will never sell it. [5]
I will let you off at twenty-eight per cent.--twenty-seven--even twenty-five if you insist, for there is nothing illiberal about me when I am out on a diplomatic debauch. [5]
She'd probably give you all she's saved to go to Europe with and study, saved from her pictures sold at twenty per cent of their value; and she'd mortgage the little income she's got to keep her brother out of jail. [11]
A pleasant trip, yesterday, per Ballarat Fly. [5]
One author per year produces a book which can outlive the forty-two-year limit; that's all. [5]
I asked him wouldn't he knock off twenty per cent. [5]
I said these words did him extreme credit, but that he must not throw away the imperishable distinction of being the first man to descend an Alp per parachute, simply to save the feelings of some envious underlings. [5]
Mark Twain's contracts with Bliss for the publication of his books on the subscription plan had been made on a royalty basis, beginning with 5 per cent. [5]
The creditors were willing to accept fifty per cent. [5]
But before I will make a deed, the money must be had, or secured beyond all doubt, at ten per cent. [7]
Thirty years later, when his fame was not much more extended, his pay for the same matter would have been fifteen times as great, that is to say, at the rate of thirty cents per word. [5]
Of these, 90,290 went to the polls and voted--85.18 per cent. [5]
The first thing we did on that glad evening that landed us at St. Joseph was to hunt up the stage-office, and pay a hundred and fifty dollars apiece for tickets per overland coach to Carson City, Nevada. [5]
They have a way of mixing the oxygen which issues in small jets from certain natural springs with their atmospheric nitrogen in the proportion of about twenty per cent, which makes very nearly the same thing as the air of your planet. [6]
Their price for washing was $2.50 per dozen--rather cheaper than white people could afford to wash for at that time. [5]
One of them was of the class of people who grumble if they don't get canvas-backs and woodcocks every day, for three-fifty per week. [6]
Then the sailors' wages were enough for comfortable support; but in 1797 through the rise in the cost of living, and with an advance of thirty per cent. [11]
The price per vote was paid in doughnuts, and it depended somewhat on the appetites of the individuals as to the price of the votes. [5]
The colony of Victoria has a population of 1,000,000, and those people are said to drink 25,000,000 bottles of champagne per year. [5]
She instituted a vegetable garden there, got it farmed on shares by the nearest neighbor, and made it pay her a hundred per cent. [5]
For consider the varied ability that the grocery requires-the foresight about the markets, to take advantage of an eighth per cent. [4]
It would make us able to stand 1,000 sets of L. A. L. per month, but not any more, I guess. [5]
A photographer came up the other day and wanted to make some views, and I shall send you the result per this mail. [5]
No Bishops appointed unless they agree to hand in 90 per cent. [5]
That accounts for two per cent. [5]
Small shippers paid two per cent. [5]
Result: it is twenty-four words per minute. [5]
The result seems trustworthy, and shows that during the fourteen years, previous to 1858, the decrease was 19.42 per cent. [1]
Here, all bunched together--of all kinds, they are 7 per cent--simply ruin. [5]
Two months salary to you two officers amounts altogether to $2,400--about one-eighth of your ten per cent. [5]
How many meals to you affect per day? [5]
She went out to see for herself; and she would have been content to find twenty per cent. [5]
For she resorts to metaphor this time, and it makes trouble, for she seems to reverse the percentages and claim only the eight per cent. [5]
I wish also to extend my thanks to the Authors' Club for constituting me a member, at a reasonable price per year, and for giving me the benefit of your legal adviser. [5]
It reduces her to eight per cent. [5]
Suppose a blister to diminish a man's pain, effusion or dyspnoea to the saving of twenty per cent. [3]
For a long time now about 8,000 tons of it have been brought into the town per year. [5]
I can believe this, because my own case was somewhat similar, as per my former article. [5]
In Philadelphia alone this drain averaged $5000 per quarter; and in other cities of the seaboard it was proportionate. [7]
I shall continue this (an hour per day) but the rest of the year I expect to put in on a couple of long books (half-completed ones. [5]
Without counting them, the twenty-six letters of our alphabet consumed about eighty pen-strokes for their construction--about three pen-strokes per letter. [5]
A few of the richest of them were the most hopeless politically--ever ready to sacrifice principle for an extra dividend of a quarter per cent. [11]
This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so. [5]
And that was the end of Mr. Dix for me; when he had backed himself out in chagrin at having lost his ten per centum, my feelings got the better of me. [9]
E. Lee's' time the distance had diminished to about one thousand and thirty miles; consequently her average was about fourteen and one-eighth miles per hour. [5]
We will call the current five and a half miles per hour. [7]
Everybody joked about the by-law requiring members to pay ten per cent. [5]
How beauteous is the bond In the manifold array Of its promises to pay, While the eight per cent it gives And the rate at which one lives Correspond! [6]
By and by the association published the fact that upon a certain date the wages would be raised to five hundred dollars per month. [5]
He was smoking the "humbliest" pipe I ever saw--a dingy, funnel-shaped, red-clay thing, streaked and grimed with oil and tears of tobacco, and with all the different kinds of dirt there are, and thirty per cent. [5]
I only mean that those influences levied a tax of a considerable per cent. [7]
It might be that there was no precise justice in raising the price of the reserved sections to $2.50 per acre. [7]
We levied a ten per cent. [5]
He drove a team, and owned a small ranch--a ranch that paid him a comfortable living, for although it yielded but little hay, what little it did yield was worth from $250 to $300 in gold per ton in the market. [5]
I feel quite sure that the average profit to her on these books, above cost of manufacture, is all of seven hundred per cent. [5]
If Mr. Crewe's suggestions had been carried out, seventy-five per cent of the railroad accidents might have been eliminated. [9]
Lo Sciatti fu subito raccolto da alcuni cittadini, che, per mezzo della pubblica vettura n. 365, lo transporto a San Giovanni di Dio. [5]
It is plenty strong enough as concerns Austria, for ten years ago 5,000,000 was nine per cent of the empire's population. [5]
But if he sold it at seven hundred per cent. [5]
Bret Harte has sold his novel (same size as mine, I should say) to Scribner's Monthly for $6,500 (publication to begin in September, I think,) and he gets a royalty of 7 1/2 per cent from Bliss in book form afterwards. [5]
In short, modern society is going to the dogs, notwithstanding money is only three and a half per cent. [4]
I already had six of them per week, before. [5]
I had already six of them per week before. [5]
It was very simple: you discounted a statement ninety-seven per cent; the rest was fact. [5]
I'll write a short letter twice a week, for the present, for the "Age," for $5 per week. [5]
Yesterday it was September 8, Sunday; to-day, per the bulletin-board at the head of the companionway, it is September 10, Tuesday. [5]
I have likewise sent off to-day, per rail, a return-box of Cornhill books. [14]
He gets a royalty of ten per cent on it in England (issued in serial numbers) and the same royalty on it in book form afterwards, and is to receive an advance payment of five hundred pounds the day the first No. [5]
Do I not remember that glorious moment when the late Mr.---- we won't say who,--editor of the--we won't say what, offered me the sum of fifty cents per double-columned quarto page for shaking my young boughs over his foolscap apron? [6]
Deeply moved, she put it on her finger; but Andreas pointed to the motto, and said with failing utterance: "That is your road--and mine--my father's motto: Per aspera ad astra. [10]
The Widow Douglas put Huck's money out at six per cent., and Judge Thatcher did the same with Tom's at Aunt Polly's request. [5]
In Prussia, per Prussian telegrams, though contradicted from France. [5]
I redeemed the property at former rates, after deducting ten per cent. [5]
The Atlantic page probably contained about a thousand words, which would make his price average, say, two cents per word. [5]
The stories were pretty sizable, merely pretty sizable; yet Mr. H. was continually interrupting with a cold, inexorable 'Wait--knock off twenty-five per cent. [5]
In sixteen hundred pounds crude cotton four hundred are lint, worth, say, ten cents a pound; and twelve hundred pounds of seed, worth $12 or $13 per ton. [5]
She has a population, as per the latest census, of only 320,000-odd, and yet her varieties of religion indicate the presence within her borders of samples of people from pretty nearly every part of the globe you can think of. [5]
Where is the place where there is twenty-five times more manhood, pluck, true heroism, unselfishness, devotion to high and noble ideals, adoration of liberty, wide education, and brains, per thousand of population, than any other domain in the whole world can show? [5]
It will be perceived that the snakes are not much interested in cattle; they kill only 3,000 odd per year. [5]
The nation became, per force, sailors--as the ancient Greeks were and the modern Greeks are: adventurers, discoverers--hardy, ambitious, seeking food from the sea and wealth from every side. [4]
I find (as per advertisement which I sent you) that they won't carry dogs in these ships at any price. [5]
We left per Pennsylvania Railroad, at 8 A.M. April 18. [5]
I used to pay $1.50 per shave in our house in Hartford. [5]
I have just paid one of my pair of permitted 2 minutes visits per day to the sick room. [5]
Send me another package of those envelopes, per Bagley's coat pocket. [5]
If the drug or the blister takes five per cent. [3]
Her pulse, the only time she allowed it be to felt, was found to beat 115 per minute. [14]
Operas are given only on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with three days of ostensible rest per week, and two teams to do the four operas; but the ostensible rest is devoted largely to rehearsing. [5]
It cost him one per cent. [11]
We have heard of the hot wave every Wednesday, per the weekly paper--we allow no dailies to intrude. [5]
The General spoke of the gallant work of many of the people in their attempts to save their stock, but thought that fully twenty-five per cent. [5]
A sliding scale of reduction of 10 per cent a year has a sort of plausible look, and I am willing to try that if three other powers will join. [5]
By the terms of my contract my publishers had to account to me for, 50,000 volumes per year for five years, and pay me for them whether they sold them or not. [5]
In a fit of anger, the old man offered him what was at least ten per cent more than the value of Fabian's share. [11]
Besides, a concert of amateurs had been smuggled into the program (to precede me,) and their families and friends (say ten per cent of the audience) kept encoring them and they always responded. [5]
But I see now, that you were writing, about that time, therefore a part of my stir could have come across the Atlantic per mental telegraph. [5]
Important as per my conversation with you. [9]
When, therefore, Dr. Mublenbein, as stated in the "Homoeopathic Examiner," and quoted in yesterday's "Daily Advertiser," asserts that the mortality among his patients is only one per cent. [3]
If he lent money, he never demanded more than eight per cent. [11]
The "biggest copyright," mentioned in this letter, was a royalty of 7 1/2 per cent., which Bliss had agreed to pay, on the retail price of the book. [5]

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