They did, and so did many others: 40 percent of the runners never finished.

A study released yesterday showed that 20.65 percent, or 1 in 5, will not finish high school.

About 30 percent of draftees have not finished the ninth grade.

Word had it that only 40 percent of the kids finished school.

In the city's poorest neighborhoods, he contends, 75 percent of children never finish high school.

If so, 96.4 percent finished, compared with 97 percent last year.

Last year, each game's starting position players finished with at least one hit 67.1 percent of the time.

The previous high was in 1986 when 96 percent, 19,689 of 20,502 starters, finished.

In rural Africa, about 70 percent of girls do not finish primary school.

Every year more than 80 percent of those who sign up for the project do not finish, often because the experience is just too painful.