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2 percents vs 2 percent

Both "2 percents" and "2 percent" are not correct. The correct form is "2 percent" without the plural "s". Percent is already a unit of measurement, so it does not need to be pluralized.

Last updated: March 31, 2024

2 percents

This is not a correct construction in English. Percent is already a unit of measurement and does not need to be pluralized.

Incorrect. Use "2 percent" instead of "2 percents".

2 percent

This is not a correct construction in English. Percent is already a unit of measurement and does not need to be pluralized.

Incorrect. Use "2 percent" instead of "2 percents".
  • At this distance of 36 million miles... you are observing the sun at 2 percent of full brightness.
  • Less than 2 percent of the sunlight reaches the floor, but even here there is extraordinary variety.
  • Seventy-five milligrams Demerol IV, Lidocaine 2 percent local.
  • Six million containers enter U.S. ports every year yet fewer than 2 percent of them are opened and inspected by U.S. Customs.
  • I'm sure you're not. That's like 2 percent of the population.
  • In less than 200 years, you know, just in a few generations, we've gone from being 200 - being 100 percent, 95 percent farmers to less than 2 percent of farmers.
  • 2 percent oxygen left!
  • So you're bringing in an overall decline of 2 percent for the month... but if I read this correctly, almost half of that's coming... from an eight-percent drop in the Western District?
  • O-2 level 2 percent and increasing.
  • Power loss now 1 2 percent.
  • The 2 percent of his action, that's up to you.
  • But if you employ optimal strategy and always drop with a royal flush, You can push those odds to 2 percent.
  • I'll give you your 2 percent.
  • In Sweden and Finland for example two thirds of schools have access to the Internet while the figure is fewer than 2 percent of schools in Germany.
  • After decades of 2 percent, we are now at 5 percent, and it's going to - projected - 6 and 7 percent even.
  • Two thirds of all the world's disabled persons live in the Third World, and only 2 percent of disabled children in these developing countries receive any form of education or rehabilitation.
  • like 98 percent excited, 2 percent scared.
  • Exhibit a relative error in energy measurement less than or equal to 2 percent compared to a standard under the conditions specified in Section 3.6.4, with the exception of current, which shall be tested at 25 percent and 100 percent of the meter's maximum current; or
  • At the time in Sweden we had practically full employment, e.g. only 2 percent unemployment, among the population as a whole.
  • There are over 500,000 local and state offices in America. Fewer than 2 percent of those offices are held by Asian-Americans or Latinos, the two largest immigrant groups in our country.

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