high percentage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhighandpercentage
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high
adjective
uk/haɪ/us/haɪ/
(especially of things that are not living) being a large distance from top to bottom or a long way above the ground, or having the stated distance from top ...
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percentage
noun
uk/pəˈsen.tɪdʒ/us/pɚˈsen.t̬ɪdʒ/
an amount of something, often expressed as a number out ...
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(Definition ofhighandpercentagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Finally, all the investigated prescriptions included ahighpercentageof cut and/or shortened words.
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Therefore, thehighpercentageat risk within the child characteristics and family ecology factors was not itself responsible for the lack of findings.
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Thehighpercentageof never-married women reflects thehighpercentageof women aged between 17 and 25 in the sample.
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Dormancy was broken in ahighpercentageof the seeds by cold stratification without first exposing them to a period of warm stratification.
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In contrast to arboreal monkeys, ahighpercentageof chimpanzee and gorilla defecations contain seeds.
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A sustained effect of the order form was also observed 2 years after its implementation, despite ahighpercentageof nonappropriate order forms.
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These oocytes, fertilizable in ahighpercentage, exhibited normal embryonic development.
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It is important to use these famous issues because ahighpercentageof respondents will have an opinion about them.
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Moreover, thishighpercentageenabled us to obtain a reliable calculation of vaccination coverage, namely, 95 % for the primary series.
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Similarly, trust in political institutions has been registering a consistentlyhighpercentage.
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Planets with a relativelyhighpercentageof land coverage show stronger weathering and therefore enhanced removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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Subsequent research has confirmed the general pattern of late marriage alongside ahighpercentageof permanently single people, which remained stable for centuries.
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Thishighpercentageof endogenous saprophytes could be explained by the age of the buds used.
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Thehighpercentageof parents familiar with chickenpox rash was not compatible with the sizable number of parents reporting erroneous histories in their children.
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A comparatively low percentage of ticks survived the primary infection (45%) but of these survivors ahighpercentage(82%) survived the challenge (secondary) infection.
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