A proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)
1
On leaf tobacco three shillings per pound, or one thousand two hundred per centum.
2
On manufactured tobacco it is nine shillings sterling per pound, or about two thousand per centum.
3
Ninety per centum of our volume is brain.
4
In 1855, the Catholic population of Iowa increased one hundred and fifty per centum in a single year.
5
On rice, the duty is fifteen shillings sterling per hundred weight, being more than one hundred per centum.
6
He says that the richest mine, that of Callao, has of late years returned as much as 500 per centum.
7
His provisions and his flour, however, bought a good price, but the greatest per centum of profit was made on cigars.
8
You shall receive ten per centum upon this earth, Master Willis, and I warrant that it shall not be forgotten hereafter.
9
The new taxes were mortgaged for four millions by transferable annuities, at an interest of four, and a premium of ten per centum.
10
Our iron ore is superior to that of Great Britain, yielding often from sixty to eighty per centum, while theirs produces only about twenty-five.
11
It seems almost incredible to relate, that the churches and stations, provided for their accommodation, increased in the same time nearly one hundred per centum.
12
On lumber, and some other articles, they are from four hundred to fifteen hundred per centum more than on similar articles imported from British colonies.
13
The royalty fee payable under this subclause shall be 0.5 of 1 per centum, regardless of the number of distant signal equivalents, if any; and
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