The share of foreign new students in graduate schools fell from eighteen percent to sixteen and a half percent.

VOA: special.2010.09.16

The atmosphere is about twenty-percent oxygen and eighty percent nitrogen from Earth's surface to where space begins at one-hundred-twenty kilometers up.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

By two thousand seven,however, the numbers were down to less than ten percent of boys and only eight percent of girls.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

But he says investment has risen from four percent of national budgets to probably five and a half percent today.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

Voter turnout was lower than in the last national elections in two thousand five -- sixty-two percent compared to seventy-six percent.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

The number of Washingtonians grew about three percent during that period while the United States population increased more than seven percent.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

So were twelve and a half percent of Asians and almost nine and a half percent of non-Hispanic whites.

VOA: special.2010.09.18

About twenty-seven percent said they plan to go to graduate school, compared to about twenty-four percent a year ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

If you use an alcohol-based product instead of soap and water, make sure it contains at least sixty percent alcohol.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

The study found a sixty-three percent increase in the number of people treated for rock climbing injuries in American hospitals.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

The report said the rate of pneumonia in adults after surgery decreased more than eleven and a half percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

The United States National Institutes of Health says autoimmune diseases affect an estimated five to eight percent of the country's population.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

Last year thirty-seven percent of Peace Corps volunteers were serving in Africa and twenty-four percent in Latin America.

VOA: special.2011.03.28

The astronauts' decrease in bone strength measured from point six percent to five percent for each month spent on the space station.

VOA: special.2009.03.10