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

"But nobody should have to spend more than 10 to 15 hours to increase his or her score by 100 points."

Each subsequent question's starting value would increase by 25 points.

Over the long run, the company said the deal should increase its earnings growth rate by 1 to 2 percentage points.

In the previous example, the interest rate "increased by 5 percentage points" from 10% to 15%.

The number of special education students in regular classrooms has increased by less than 4 percentage points since 2000.

The Hurricanes have increased their scoring average by nearly 20 points.

No civil servant will see contributions increase by more than 2.4 percentage points in 2012-13.

However, it no longer applies, since the central bank started increasing the rates by 0.25 percentage points at a time.

In the new Pew survey, that figure increased by at least 10 percentage points for both groups.