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When termites were offered both treated and untreated wood, the same concentration produced roughly 96 percent mortality.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Groups that began with 50 percent exposed termites showed a broadly similar survival pattern.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
In one experiment in which termites had no untreated alternative, the 0.1 percent bistrifluron treatment produced about 99 percent mortality after 60 days.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
UNE said 48 percent of its customers in Havana had regained power on Saturday.
From Barron's
Both of the new domes, together, replace less than 10 percent of what the May 18, 1980 eruption—the big one—had blown away.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
“They are not accurate enough. I’m moving not well enough, so everything in my game, there are some percents missing. I don’t really know why.”
From New York Times ● May 30, 2021
"Fifty percent of them want him to, and 50 percent don't want him to. I try to play both 50 percents."
From Reuters ● Jan. 27, 2017
And when you add up all those weeks he’s had to re-do the loan, the yearly interest rate could add up to hundreds of percents.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 7, 2016
Market yields range from the low to mid-6 percents.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2016
Wearing it in class when the teacher droned on about fractions and percents.
From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies
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