Some 61% used contraceptives, just a few percentage points short of the 65-80% rate prevailing in Europe, North America and most of East Asia.

61%的人使用避孕措施，仅比欧洲、北美和东亚大部分地区普遍采用的65-80%的比率低几个百分点。

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In America an increase of 12 percentage points in the budget deficit has cushioned the slump in private spending.

在美国，财政赤字12个百分点的上涨缓冲了私人支出的下滑。

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America's unemployment rate fell 0.4 percentage points in January for a second consecutive month, dropping the rate to 9.0%.

美国的失业率在一月份连续两个月走低，下降了0.4个百分点至9.0%。

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They promised to do their part to cut the growth rate in health spending by one and a half percentage points a year.

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And those things taken together have pushed the growth rate by couple of percentage points beyond what India's trade growth rate has been in the last 25 years.

所有因素综合起来,大大促进了印度经济的发展,使印度的贸易增长额,较过去的25年,有了显著增长。

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But this was less than one percent short of the two-thirds majority the ANC had campaigned for and four percentage points less than it won in elections five years ago.

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One proxy for borrowing costs, the iTraxx Europe Senior Financials index, is back above three percentage points, after falling to 1.81 percentage points in March from a record 3.53 percentage points in late November.

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On Monday, Dow Jones had registered its biggest fall in points and in percentage terms since December 1, 2008.

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In September 2005 the year-over-year gap was 3.7 percentage points and then a whopping 4.4 percentage points in July 2008.

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