• Fish species only represent two to three per cent of all living things in the ocean.

    UNESCO: THEMES

  • Their black marker pen censored three per cent of the report for "legal reasons".

    BBC: Savile inquiry: Media reaction to BBC transcripts

  • Forty-three per cent said the warnings and advertising campaigns over the last year had made them more likely to quit.

    BBC: NEWS | Health | Smoking 'falling out of favour'

  • In 2010, according to a study by the Australia Institute, eighty-three per cent of domestic mining production was owned by foreign companies.

    NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter

  • In Great Britain and France, the figure is about three per cent.

    NEWYORKER: Live and Learn

  • "Three million visitors come from the States to the UK and Liverpool sees perhaps three per cent of them, " Jerry Goldman said.

    BBC: Liverpool links to Elvis tourism

  • Only three per cent of the public accessing services at their local community health centre compared to ten per cent in the rest of the country.

    BBC: Rocky times

  • Between July and September of this year, trading accounted for sixty-three per cent of its revenue, and corporate finance just thirteen per cent.

    NEWYORKER: What Good Is Wall Street?

  • Forty-three per cent of 10-year-olds in his area are obese.

    BBC: Stephen Nolan presents new obesity documentary Dead Fat

  • Sixty-three per cent said judges don't get the sentencing right, and almost 80% said they believe the criminal justice system is weighted in favour of criminals rather than victims.

    BBC: NI judges 'not out of touch'

  • The economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty have found that ninety-three per cent of the gains during the 2009-10 recovery went to the top one per cent of earners.

    NEWYORKER: Super-Rich Irony

  • Councillors agreed to save money by raising rents by three per cent, on top of a five per cent rise already imposed for this year, and cutting 25 agency posts.

    BBC: Wrexham's council house tenants have seen a rent increase

  • Between June 22, 1941, the day Germany invaded Russia, and June 6, 1944, D Day, ninety-three per cent of German military casualties 4.2 million missing, wounded, or killed were inflicted by Soviet forces.

    NEWYORKER: Getting Real

  • Forty-three per cent said pupils in their school had self-harmed due to the pressures they faced, 37% said students suffered from eating disorders and 13% knew of a pupil who had attempted suicide.

    BBC: Pupils 'under greater pressure'

  • Sixty-three per cent of doctors overestimated survival time.

    NEWYORKER: Letting Go

  • Government tax revenue is often more than double the budget, and, like Kuwait, Macau distributes occasional checks to its residents under a program named the Wealth Partaking Scheme. (Last year: eight hundred and seventy-five dollars per person.) Unemployment is below three per cent.

    NEWYORKER: The God of Gamblers

  • The white working class a group that often speaks of itself, and is spoken of, as forgotten, marginalized, even despised is the golden key to political power in America, and it voted overwhelmingly for George W. Bush twice, by seventeen per cent in 2000 and twenty-three per cent in 2004.

    NEWYORKER: The Hardest Vote

  • Most don't guarantee to invest in renewables and there's another factor: given that all electricity companies are already obliged to find three per cent of their supplies from renewable sources (that'll rise to 10 per cent by 2010), you might ask why you should pay a premium to help them meet that obligation?

    BBC: 28 MARCH

  • The quarter was break even, versus a 2 cent profit in the same period last year, but better than the three cent per share loss expected by analysts.

    FORBES: Weekly Market Wrap

  • Although they account for only an estimated three to five per cent of the market, their sales increased a hundred and seventy-seven per cent in 2009, and it was projected that they would eventually account for between twenty-five and fifty per cent of all books sold.

    NEWYORKER: Publish or Perish

  • The bank was able to point to progress in shoring up its capital, reporting that core tier one capital if incoming Basel III banking rules were applied had reached 8 per cent, three months earlier than planned.

    CNN: Costs drag Deutsche Bank to ��2.2bn loss

  • Excluding one-time costs, the firm made a profit of one cent per share, comfortably beating expectations for a three-cent loss.

    BBC: Zynga brings losses under control

  • In 2000, 1.5m Japanese tourists visited China, a 41 per cent rise in three years.

    FORBES: Hillary is Wasting her Time, and America's, on a Fool's Errand

  • Four years from now, I expect to hang on to at least thirty to forty per cent of that twenty-three.

    NEWYORKER: Most Likely to Succeed

  • He was now approximately three-quarters, or that would be sixty per cent, across.

    NEWYORKER: Tenth of December

  • Citi will also be barred from issuing a dividend in excess of 1 cent per share per quarter for three years, unless it receives government permission.

    FORBES: Uncle Sam Pumps Up Citi

  • Through the nineteen-sixties and seventies, it was not unusual for the three major networks to capture eighty-five to ninety per cent of the available prime-time audience.

    NEWYORKER: Streaming Dreams

  • Orin Kerr says that, in the two years since he gave the individual mandate only a one-per-cent chance of being overturned, three key things have happened.

    NEWYORKER: Unpopular Mandate

  • Almost three years after Obama took office, unemployment hovered around 9 per cent.

    NEWYORKER: Replay

  • In the Financial Times 2006 MBA rankings, graduates of the top-placed Wharton school reported salary increases of 139 per cent in the period from starting their course until three years after graduation.

    CNN: Rapid rise beckons mobile workers

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