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The figure was up four percentage points from a year ago.

So we should ask whether these students are 10 percentage points better.

One way to get ahead is to increase your company's national market share by five percentage points.

President Clinton won here in 1992, but by only three percentage points.

In most cases, the rate cannot go up more than two or three percentage points a year.

Each percentage point would mean $34 million for the state.

The companies also put a $20 million cost on each percentage point.

The rate was cut by a half a percentage point.

From 1998 to 2001, the increase was only 1.8 percentage points.

He said an increase of a full percentage point would have some effect.