fixed percentage

collocation in English

meaningsoffixedandpercentage

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fixed
adjective
uk
/fɪkst/us
/fɪkst/
arranged or decided already and not able to ...
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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 offixedandpercentagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffixed percentage

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The article suggests a way in which a more transparent system could guarantee a total state pension at afixedpercentageof average earnings.
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As with the seasonal cluster areas, a sequential random set of subsamples was then generated, each time incorporating afixedpercentageof the training set.
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Agents will change rules only if the new one exceeds the current one by afixedpercentage.
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Many national grant programs are prescribed to pay afixedpercentageof specific costs.
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Retirement credits are accumulated individually with afixedpercentageof the yearly insured wage per 10year age group.
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In fiscal year 1973, the national grant program of day-care centers started to pay thefixedpercentage of a centrally established standard cost and finally abolished the fixed sum system.
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For this purpose, five bets, each representing afixedpercentageof the current total points score (5, 25, 50, 75, and 95 %) were offered on each trial.
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I find the first amendment about afixedpercentageof public funds to be sensible.
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Every time wages go up, every time costs increase in any other form, automatically profits increase by afixedpercentage.
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It could be afixedpercentageof the external funding by which clinical research would be supported from central funds.
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In the past it has been calculated as afixedpercentageof the single person's needs allowance.
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You are quite right; inspection is now moving towards being inspection based on risks, which is much better than thefixedpercentage.
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They are discretionary grants and are not based on anyfixedpercentageof the cost of the works.
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Some schemes give afixedpercentageof dynamism and some give no dynamism at all.
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Under the present system of meat control nofixedpercentageof profit is guaranteed to the retailer.
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In 1942 the excess profit was regarded as afixedpercentageover a supposed normal profit.
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The first of them is the limitation of profits, regardless of cost or price, to a fixed sum or afixedpercentage.
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They give a certainfixedpercentageof the full contribution.
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We have insisted on thefixedpercentagewithin the regulation, otherwise it would crowd out other human rights projects.
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That would mean afixedpercentagerevaluation and would avoid the uncertainties of an open-ended commitment to pay a premium over and above that.
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