The most meaningful way to measure deficits is as a percentage of the nation's economic output.

Germany spends more on health care, as a percentage of its economic output, than all countries except Switzerland and the United States.

Information technology, an economic sector that includes publishing, software development, entertainment and data processing has garnered a larger percentage of Atlanta's economic output.

Only a small percentage of Mozart's vast musical output has entered the standard concert repertory.

The United States spends much less on development aid as a percentage of its total economic output than Japan and European nations do.

Economists say the budget will decrease slightly as a percentage of the country's economic output.

The Councillors were taking a percentage of Loki's gross output.

If the percentage of the star's output thus filtered or transformed by this absorption and reradiation was significant, it could be detected at interstellar distances.

As a percentage of the nation's economic output, it is, to use the technical language of economists, bubkes.

So while it represents a small percentage of my output, at times it has identified me - or, in old-fashioned terminology, typecast me.