percent decrease

When something has been reduced by one hundred percent, it’s all gone(or if the reduction was in its price, it’s free). You can’t properlyspeak of reducing anything by more than a hundred percent (unless it’s adeficit or debt, in which case you wind up with a surplus).

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• as less as possible vs as little as possible
• absorbtion vs absorption
• error vs err
• grill vs grille
• dateline vs deadline
• basicly vs basically
• bias vs biased
• tragedy vs travesty
• hyperdermic vs hypodermic
• notate vs note

News & Articles

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• Final April report shows slight improvement in Steamboat Springs sales tax collections
  The city collected $943,443 this April, a decrease of 0.84 percent from April 2012 collections and slightly higher than the 0.92 percent decrease represented in the preliminary report.
  June 15, 2013 - The Steamboat Pilot & Today
• State cuts Clarksburg road repair funds 25 percent
  Friday June 14, 2013 CLARKSBURG -- Under recent cuts from the state, the town is scheduled to see a 25 percent decrease in Chapter 90 road assistance funds for fiscal year 2014. "All I can do is shake my head," Chairman of the Selectmen Carl McKinney said at a meeting of the board this week.
  June 14, 2013 - North Adams Transcript
• U.S. Import Prices Unexpectedly Drop In May On Lower Fuel Prices
  With prices for fuel imports seeing a significant decrease, the Labor Department released a report on Thursday showing an unexpected drop in U.S import prices in the month of May. The report said import prices fell by 0.6 percent in May following a revised 0.7 percent decrease in April. Economists had been expecting import prices to come in unchanged.
  June 13, 2013 - RTT News