Which preposition to use with percentage
The former won the greater percentage of games under the old rule in vogue of allotting percentage upon victories.
The object of the professional managers of the fair is to make money for themselves, and this they do thru the guaranty of the merchants, or a percentage on concessions, or both.
With him life was at best an uncertain game, and he recognized the usual percentage in favor of the dealer.
I wanted something more, or else something less; but my views were not so clear, nor my system so logical and well-built, as that upon which my father rested his conscience, and drew his percentage with a light heart.
Others think that justice dictates what they term graduated taxation; taking a higher percentage from those who have more to spare.
When it was done, the gentlemen wanted to buy over Isak's percentage for a ridiculous sumfive hundred Kroner.
We have, as so often happens in the lives of distinguished premiers, three courses before us: (1) to charge the present value for each kind of wine; (2) to put on a certain percentage to the original value of each kind; (3) to make a compromise between these two courses.