I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an average length
▪ These worms grow to an average length of about 1 metre.
an average speed
▪ Our average speed was 88 mph.
average earnings
▪ Average earnings for teachers are around $70,000.
average/typical/ordinary punter
▪ The technical details mean nothing to the average punter.
grade point average
high/low/average ability
▪ a group of low ability pupils
▪ Many of these students are of above average ability.
▪ Children of high ability demand more absorbing tasks.
high/low/average earner
▪ Private childcare is still too expensive for the average earner.
medium/average build
▪ He was of medium build and wearing a light-coloured jacket.
the average consumer
▪ The average consumer has become more price conscious.
the average cost
▪ What’s the average cost of a wedding in the UK?
the average income
▪ The report compares average incomes across different European countries.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
above
▪ Again, both groups are above average in logical thinking, preferring to make decisions based on facts.
▪ An analyst at Merrill Lynch &038; Co. lowered the managed-care provider to hold from above average on an intermediate-term basis.
▪ The figures for black youngsters excluded indefinitely and for a fixed period were also above average.
▪ Pay above average within the industry and geographic area 2.
▪ He was a slight man, a little above average height, but by no means a. prime physical specimen.
▪ Similarly, most middle managers are average or above average in intelligence.
below
▪ But when the average cost curve is falling the marginal cost curve lies below average cost.
▪ I counted only six white workers in the factory, half of which seemed to be of below average intelligence.
▪ It was not an altogether convincing Braintree display against a below average looking Yeading side.
▪ When the offences happened he was an unenthusiastic and below average soldier, the court heard.
▪ Large economies of scale mean that marginal cost lies below average cost.
▪ Frayed edges, broken by a very below average human finger, nearly fit round corners of chipped cream-painted cream furniture.
▪ But it needed a full-time crammer to get you there and you're still below average.
■ NOUN
age
▪ With an average age of 71, few will be able to find work.
▪ Its circulation is about 500, 000, and the average age of its readers is 30. 5.
▪ There have, for example, been slight increases in average family size and in the average age at marriage.
▪ What is the average age people grow out of it?
▪ For many staff, whose average age is below 30, the slump is a new experience.
▪ The average age of nurses is now over 45.
▪ The average age was about 16 5 and some of the more distinctive dress elements were present.
▪ The average age of the cruise vacationer is 49, according to Cruise Lines International Association.
cost
▪ But when the average cost curve is falling the marginal cost curve lies below average cost.
▪ This possibility depends on a wedge between price and marginal, not average cost.
▪ These should be related to the average cost of the services.
▪ In particular, let the average cost curves for firms in one country lie everywhere below those in the other.
▪ Output is allocated among plants so that all are producing at the lowest point on their average cost curves.
▪ The unit cost function represents marginal and average costs.
▪ Health centres with a low throughput may have higher average costs than a busy hospital outpatient department.
▪ Let us compare that cost with the average cost in the Tennessee Valley of $ 166 per kilowatt of capacity.
earnings
▪ Economic statistics: Labour market statistics: average earnings.
▪ Jardine Fleming Thanakom expects 21 % growth in average earnings per share in 1996, up from just 10 % in 1995.
▪ Britain's pension was also low as a percentage of national average earnings.
▪ When the link between average earnings and the pension ended, so too did their hopes of a reasonable standard of living.
▪ The workers in the study sample had average earnings of about $ 6, 600 per year in 1967.
▪ The formula governing firefighters' pay is linked to the national average earnings for manual workers.
▪ By 1990 motor insurance had kept in line with average earnings and risen to £223.
estimate
▪ Results matched the average estimate from 11 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research.
▪ As with most groups, the average estimates for women are two to four times higher than those for men.
▪ Wall Street expected earnings of 71 cents, the average estimate of 12 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research.
▪ The results yesterday beat the average estimate of 19 cents, based on a poll of seven analysts by Zacks Investment Research.
▪ Analysts had expected it to earn 36 cents a share, the average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research.
▪ The results were in line with the average estimate of 71 cents a share from 13 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research.
family
▪ The amount needed will probably be rather more than, for example, the average family car.
▪ He needs to spell out why a tax cut is going to help the average family of four.
▪ The change will save the average family fifty pounds a year.
▪ This amounts to $ 3, 000 in additional taxes for the average family of four.
▪ Labour claimed the Budget will leave the average family £8 a week worse off, but Premier John Major disagreed.
▪ At the very least they should cut ticket prices, which have become unaffordable for the average family.
▪ Mr Lamont's Budget will give a tax cut of £100 a year to the average family.
▪ The average family watched less than four hours during the two conventions last time round.
growth
▪ On average, the second tier outperformed the larger firms, with an average growth rate of 6%.
▪ The average growth fund ended the year with a 30. 80 percent advance.
▪ That's some way below the industry's historical average growth rate of 17 per cent.
▪ But as Table 2-1 shows, the adoption of free-market develop-ment models has raised their average growth rates.
▪ An average growth rate of 11 % p.a. in real manufactured exports, reflecting increased competitiveness.
height
▪ It is located in a layer at an average height of 12 kilometres above the Earth's surface.
▪ The suspect was described as a white male of average height and weight between 25 to 32 years old.
▪ He was a burly man of average height, white-haired and distinguished looking.
▪ At five feet eight she was above the average height for a woman.
▪ The average height of a man was six feet, while seven-foot giants were by no means uncommon.
▪ Speaking rapidly into Nick's ear was a man of average height, slightly tanned and with high cheek-bones.
household
▪ Only luxury items beyond the reach of the average household remained on open sale.
▪ Currently, the average household has access to dozens of channels.
▪ The new bills will save an average household £50 a year, but today's decision has shocked county officials.
▪ There has been both an increase in the total number of households and a decrease in the average household size.
▪ The city limits encompassed 91 square miles, and the water bill for the average household was $ 8.
▪ A spending breakdown shows the average household spends £47.70 on food, £47.40 on housing and £42.90 on transport.
▪ Surveys of viewing patterns show that in an average household the television set is in use over seven hours a day.
income
▪ Allowing for this element means that the average income from farming per full-time equivalent may be about £9,000 perannum.
▪ And this is the average income for full-time workers.
▪ Pensions then were equivalent to two-thirds or more of average incomes of working-class adults.
▪ In the mid 1960s, the average income for black families was only 54% of the average for white families.
▪ Consequently, she had to exist on an average income of £26 per week from an evening waitressing job.
▪ The differences which remain are enforced mainly by differences in average income and in style of government.
▪ It shows that a third of average incomes is generated by migrant labour and only a fifth by selling crops.
▪ Available goods are so highly priced as to be out of reach for people on average incomes.
length
▪ The specialisms of geriatrics and orthopaedic surgery have recorded the largest decreases in average length of stay.
▪ To begin with, the average length of time per customer transaction tripled, which meant longer lines and increased waiting times.
▪ The average length of stay of readmitted patients was 12 days compared with 15 for those not readmitted.
▪ The average length of a bull market is 28 months, according to Ibbotson.
▪ So short of an immediate recovery, this recession will be longer than the 11-month average length of recessions since the war.
▪ Regardless of who or what triggered these placements, the average length of stay was reported as 15. 4 months.
▪ The average length of mediation in the 257 cases was 1.3 days, while the average value increased.
▪ The average length of service of my colleagues in London fell rapidly from six years to less than two years.
level
▪ The average level recorded in Sivitsa is 110.
▪ Trading was close to twice average levels at 732 million shares.
▪ The amplitude of the curve is its maximum height above its average level.
▪ Can we expect the average level of earnings of physicians to rise over the next decade?
▪ Even fewer succeed and the average level of compensation in those cases is just a few hundred pounds.
▪ The average level for most developing countries is about 15 %.
▪ Interestingly, only one of the nine families with an affected child had an above average level of emotional trauma.
▪ Second and more fundamental: is there nowadays any normal average level of fertility to which post-industrial societies are tending?
life
▪ Between 1814 and 1820 the average life of a minister was six months.
▪ The average life expectancy of a child with Down syndrome was 9 years in 1910.
▪ An alternative to making yield calculations based on average life is to make them based on equivalent life.
▪ With an average life expectancy, that same beneficiary will collect a monthly check for five years beyond that.
▪ Every soldier knew that average life expectancy at the front was seventeen days.
▪ Taking a funeral policy can cost less than paying for a funeral plan by instalments but it depends on average life expectancy.
▪ The Group's current average life of gross debt is some 5.5 years.
▪ One of the continuing financial objectives is to lengthen this average life of debt through selective refinancing.
man
▪ They have no more idea of the public's response to something musical than the average man in the street.
▪ This in fact one of the most frequent descriptions of the average man in modern political societies.
▪ It must have represented at least three weeks wages for the average man in the village.
▪ Not only will there he material improvement for the average man, but an end to poverty and privation for all.
▪ The average man who retires at 60 will live another 18 years, till 78.
▪ In this time of change, the average man was simply showing the commonplace reaction to the insecurity of the competitive system.
▪ Indeed, one of the strengths of fundamentalism is that its apologetics are within the reach of the average man and woman.
▪ This is the average man on the average day.
number
▪ The latter term is usually applied to the average number of word choices permitted by the system's grammar.
▪ In other words, the random loss of certain lines of descent will mean that the average number of defects gradually increases.
▪ The average number of quarrels per hour was three to four, although this was probably an underestimation.
▪ The average number of children per family was two and their average age was three.
▪ The average number of choices at each point was only 10.
▪ The limit is 70 percent of the average number issued between 1988, when Sedona incorporated, and 1995.
▪ Rome had probably more than the average number of beggars.
▪ The average number of items stocked in convenience stores is about 3, 000.
person
▪ A person may be unable to perform a major life activity which an average person could perform.
▪ This, indeed, is something which the average person will at first flatly deny.
▪ The average person, irrespective of weight, has too much refined sugar in their food.
▪ On Capitol Hill, parking costs the average person $ 135 to $ 200 a month.
▪ This is where we should consider what shape and size this average person might be.
▪ Most epileptics are quite emotionally stable and have no more difficulty adapting to life situations than the average person.
▪ Going up one flight of stairs to visit the lavatory is not worth recording as exercise for the average person!
▪ The average person in a developing nation consumes only 1, 031 pounds of food.
price
▪ The average price of these was a little over £26.
▪ The sharp rise last spring led to the average price of diesel fuel rising by 14 % between 1999 and 2000.
▪ These have been used to calculate continuous price series for 50 individual items based on 10 year average prices.
▪ So the total number of transactions will be ten, and the average price of each transaction is £16 / 10 £1.60.
rate
▪ The results of overseas subsidiaries are translated into sterling at average rates for the year.
▪ The average rate of agreement among these three reviewers was 70 percent.
▪ The average rate is total tax paid, divided by total income. 3.
▪ Annualized average rate of return after expenses for the past 30 days; not a forecast of future returns.
▪ That is more than double the average rate of diagnosis in the 1990s.
▪ Since 1981, the electronics industry had increased output by an average rate of about 14 percent a year in real terms.
▪ In principle, this made profitable the speculative holding of stocks of goods whose price rose only at the average rate.
▪ This period has seen a sharp fall in the average rate of growth as compared to the earlier post-war experience.
size
▪ While the average size of farms is four hectares, they are almost universally small with only 1% larger than 2Oha.
▪ It is well to know the limits in advance but it is usually small relative to the average size of grants.
▪ The average size of holding is between 3 and 6 ha, and below 3000 m irrigation is practised.
▪ The body surface area will not be used in the calculation since the clearance is being done on an average size adult.
▪ Anglers from Foyle, Ballymena and Moville experienced almost constant action, although the average size of fish taken was small.
▪ The madame was perhaps in her forties, of average size, which was disappointing.
▪ The average size of these plots was less than 1 hectare in the inner city, but up to 10 hectares at the edges.
▪ The drawings show the average sizes of families.
speed
▪ What is the average speed for the entire journey?
▪ As in many western states, drivers in Nevada have increased their average speeds modestly since the limits were raised.
▪ At an average speed of 25 k.p.h. roughly how long does each crossing take?
▪ From this they could determine the average speeds the waves traveled at different depths.
▪ The endorsement will state the gross average speed per minute and the percentage of accuracy achieved.
▪ So the average speed is five meters per second, and it will have fallen five meters.
▪ Driving standards on the whole improved during the eighties and certainly average speeds increased, in some cases dramatically.
▪ London traffic now moves at an average speed of eleven miles per hour.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the law of averages
▪ The law of averages says we're due for a win.
▪ Basically, if you believe the law of averages, 1996 should be a year for mutual funds to cool their heels.
▪ By the law of averages, one such application must finally succeed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an average price of $9,000
▪ Foreign affairs do not usually interest the average voter.
▪ In an average week I watch about 20 hours of TV.
▪ In an average week, I drive about 250 miles.
▪ The average bagel has 190 calories.
▪ The average family spends about £50 a week on food.
▪ The fishing is average around there - nothing special.
▪ The laws were simplified so that the average person could understand.
▪ There is concern that twenty years from now, the average American won't be able to afford to send his or her children to college.
▪ What's the average rainfall in this area?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anglers from Foyle, Ballymena and Moville experienced almost constant action, although the average size of fish taken was small.
▪ In southern California the average number of passengers per journey is 1.13.
▪ Men are not equipped with gorgeous ornaments or stereotyped courtship rituals, however it may look in the average discotheque.
▪ Packers reply that their average earnings are less than 1 percent of their sales.
▪ The average price for a Gulls game is $ 9.
▪ The government also considered the drop in drilling costs -- and rising output from the average gas discovery.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
daily
▪ Even such a short break would reduce my daily average to 18.3 miles.
▪ Trading was an estimated 544 million shares, up from the three-month daily average of 430 million shares.
▪ An estimated 459 million shares changed hands, up from a six-month daily average of 419 million issues.
▪ For the week, the daily average was 11. 21 billion baht.
▪ About 26, 740 shares changed hands, compared to a daily average of 19, 288 during the past six months.
high
▪ They represent the highest points average in the international game - a fraction above the All Black whom he deposed from no.1.
▪ Despite this tragedy, she graduated with the second highest grade point average in her high school.
▪ Early returns were showing an unusually high catch average of 5.75 fish per rod.
▪ Health bosses say his his night payments are five times higher than the average.
▪ It declines progressively from the high average of about 15 years in the middle of the century to about 12.5 today.
industrial
▪ The Dow Jones industrial average fell 22.69 points to 3,492.00.
▪ After opening with moderate weakness, the industrial average led a resurgent move by economically sensitive stocks.
▪ When they took office in January 1993 the Dow Jones industrial average stood at 3,242.
▪ In late morning trading on Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average fell sharply, down 115.09 at 10,380.19.
▪ By the close profit-takers had the upper hand and the Dow Jones Industrial average was down 6.08 points at 2,785.33.
▪ Instead, the Dow Jones industrial average climbed to still another record high.
▪ The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average is already up 4. 9 percent this year, after soaring 26 percent in 1996.
▪ Share prices of the Dow Jones industrial average fell Friday by 55 points after an early plunge of 145 points.
national
▪ Management base pay in Greater London was 18.2 p.c. above the national average against 18.7 p.c. in December.
▪ But the test was criticized because it was geared toward national averages, instead of what was taught in California schools.
▪ Car ownership rates are higher in rural areas than the national average.
▪ Only five were solved, for a 41. 7 percent clearance rate, less than two-thirds the national average.
▪ It's more than ten percent down on the national average.
▪ Most certainly: they do better than national averages on the math tests given at the high school.
▪ By 1981, unemployment for those living in the cities was 50 percent higher than the national average.
▪ The national average is $ 1. 19.
overall
▪ There is considerable variation between sports around the overall averages reported above.
▪ This compares with an overall average of about 8 percent for the London Road End as a whole.
▪ The overall average climbed from £750 in 1975 to £8500 in 1990, but dropped more than half last year.
▪ Many writers consider that the closure by 1981 of older large plants itself artificially improved the overall average of output per worker.
▪ The sugar contents have dropped badly with the recent loads bringing our overall average down from 16.2 % to 15.7 %.
■ VERB
calculate
▪ Amplitude and duration of contractions at each recording site were calculated as the average of 10 swallows.
▪ The price was calculated from an average of the market price in the last six months, as per stock market regulations.
compare
▪ Women fare little better, working an average 40.1 hours here, compared to the Euro average of 38.9 hours.
▪ That compares with an average of 122 million shares traded each full day since July.
▪ However, with a higher age structure, compared with the national average, demand continues to outstrip supply.
▪ It is trading at about 11 times earnings per share for 1996, compared to a market average of about 18 times.
▪ These figures compared with a sector average of -90.
▪ About 26, 740 shares changed hands, compared to a daily average of 19, 288 during the past six months.
▪ This compares with the average of 16% in the U.K. as a whole.
▪ Just 74 claims were issued last week, compared to the weekly average of 550.
cost
▪ Cremation costs an average of £ 1,215-a 12 % rise.
▪ The prepared food costs an average of $ 70 a week.
earn
▪ Obviously, not every male manual worker earned the average of 163.60, nor every male non-manual worker £225 in April 1985.
▪ Journalists, for example, start out earning an average of $ 16, 000 a year.
▪ Cote says he earns an average of $ 1, 000 a week, working on straight commission.
fall
▪ In 1986 alone, primary commodity prices fell sharply by an average of nine percent.
▪ In the forty-one with faster population growth, incomes per person fell by an average of 1. 25 percent per year.
▪ But the earnings for the same exports have actually been falling - by an average of 5% per year since 19816.
▪ Therefore the weight of each of the other 99 shares fell from an average of 1.005% to 0.909%.
grow
▪ In the years between 1982 and 1988 the economy grew at an average of nearly 3 percent per year.
▪ Since 1991 the semiconductor industry has grown by an average of nearly 27 percent a year.
increase
▪ Council house rents in the district are to be increased by an average of £3.50 from April.
▪ Overall, however, requests for shelter increased by an average of five percent.
▪ Between 1979 and 1986 the number of private residential homes in Great Britain increased by an average of 18.1 percent a year.
▪ Firms connected with Brown and Root did even better, increasing in value an average of 1. 64 percent.
▪ It was this nagging feeling that was driving me to Kano and had increased my daily average to 19.6 miles.
▪ During the same period the number of places in private residential homes increased by an average of over 17 percent a year.
▪ Non-oil imports increased by an average of 4.5 percent perannum from 1979, while non-oil exports increased by 1 percent perannum.
▪ Comparisons suggest that for comparable hotels rack rates can be increased by an average of £5 per night. 3.
pay
▪ This meant first-time buyers would have to pay an average of £32,700 for their home in 1991.
▪ Their families paid an average of $ 124 per month.
▪ Other guaranteed income bonds are paying an average of around 5 percent on £5,000 left tied up for a year.
produce
▪ The marriages of the late 1950s and early 1960s have produced an average of up to 2.4 babies.
▪ It will produce an average of 584, 000 ounces of gold a year for the first 15 years.
▪ Trains and buses produce an average of 50 units per passenger mile.
receive
▪ He said if Darlington received the regional average increase the town's health services would be £1.3m better off.
▪ Between 1968 and 1972 Chicago received an average of $ 43. 2 million annually under all these programs.
▪ I am receiving, on average, four envelopes full of stamps per day.
▪ Zedillo receives an average of 300 such missives every day while on tour, his aides said.
rise
▪ Prices of Vauxhall's new cars and light vehicles will rise by an average of 3.25 percent from November 29.
▪ One test showed that when white men from the South were insulted, their testosterone levels rose an average of 12 percent.
▪ They expect that overdrafts would rise an average of about £15,500 upwards.
▪ Temperatures rose by an average of 0.6C during the past century, with an increase in floods and droughts.
▪ In August 1920, the cost of a house which stood at £250 in 1914, had risen to £930 on average.
▪ Instead fares will rise by an average of six percent.
▪ Yet their fuel bills will rise by an average of £2 a week and more in the colder areas.
▪ But in the following two years this proportion rose to an average of more than 10 percent.
spend
▪ The report shows a typical family of a man, a woman and two children spends an average of £372 a week.
▪ According to the Port, each cruise passenger last year spent an average of $ 124 in San Francisco.
▪ Yearlings spend an average of five months in a feedlot before being shipped to the packing house.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The average of 2, 4, and 9 is 5.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At an average of about $ 30 per seat, that would translate to $ 60 million in revenue.
▪ By 1983 exports had doubled even compared with their average during the 1960s.
▪ Contractor recordable and lost time accident rates were also a fraction of the industry average.
▪ Despite this tragedy, she graduated with the second highest grade point average in her high school.
▪ In the years between 1982 and 1988 the economy grew at an average of nearly 3 percent per year.
▪ It takes an average of nine months to get a green card application processed, officials said.
▪ Share prices of the Dow Jones industrial average fell Friday by 55 points after an early plunge of 145 points.
▪ Six weeks in the summer and two other holidays of three weeks are probably the average.
III.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
▪ The number of classes each week varies from course to course, but is likely to average about four per course.
▪ All seven have full-time jobs but all have been averaging about 50 miles a week in training recently.
▪ Nationally, heating oil is about a dime higher than a year ago, averaging about $ 1. 06 a gallon.
▪ These influxes were all associated with severe weather and numbers otherwise ranged between one and 24 annually, averaging about nine.
▪ Tube life is about 2, 000 hours, or almost four years if you average about 10 hours weekly.
▪ Wages at the Amazon Philharmonic average about $ 1,600 a month.
▪ Genes differ in length, averaging about 10 3 base pairs.
around
▪ In general, spreads tend to average around 6 to 7 percent.
▪ Usually this is a fixed sum which, at the time of writing seems to average around £90.
▪ Since then its growth has averaged around 7 percent a year.
▪ Last year it was thought to average around £33,500.
▪ Flocks were generally small, averaging around 30 breeding sheep per farm.
▪ Total personal income leapt by six percent during 1992 while inflation averaged around four percent.
just
▪ It fielded four candidates who averaged just under 10 percent where they stood.
▪ Twenty-one were settled with a payment to the patient; these payments averaged just over $ 40, 000.
▪ He was clearly keen to up the pace after the hosts averaged just two-and-a-half runs an over yesterday.
▪ Lindbergh had figured that his one Wright Whirlwind engine would burn 16 gallons per hour and had actually averaged just under 11.
▪ From 1955 to 1969 inflation averaged just under 2.8 percent perannum.
▪ He averaged just 2. 0 points and 3. 2 rebounds last season as a freshman.
▪ Points had been a problem, too, with the Lakers averaging just 90 in their three consecutive losses.
▪ He caught 89 passes last year, but he averaged just 7. 7 yards a catch.
more
▪ They averaged more than six yards a play, and they picked up nine first downs.
nearly
▪ This averages nearly £12,000 per equivalent full-time farm.
▪ Fertility rates are high, averaging nearly 6. 5 children, while contraceptive prevalence averages less than 8 percent.
▪ He averaged nearly 30 points in four games against the Hornets last season, and once scored 57 against Charlotte.
▪ He averages nearly seven points and more than four rebounds in about 16 minutes per game.
▪ To be listed first among these may according to one estimate confer in the Republic an advantage averaging nearly a thousand first-preference votes.
▪ Area construction permits averaged nearly 11, 800 annually between 1990 and 1994.
▪ Return on equity has averaged nearly 19% a year.
▪ In 1995, salaries of general managers averaged nearly $ 57, 000, according to the Roth Young survey.
only
▪ Consumer goods manufacturers averaged only 12.5 percent.
▪ Most students average only 12 to 20 hours out at the work site because of scheduling conflicts.
▪ The three-month trend shows sterling lending to the private sector averaging only about £1 billion a month.
▪ He had averaged only eight points in his past six games.
▪ The key is whether Richardson can rediscover his form after averaging only 18 in the World Cup.
▪ This subject said she had averaged only an hour of sleep since childhood.
▪ During the period of rebuilding the economy after World War Two, the growth rate averaged only 1.4 percent.
▪ Existing homes priced between $ 80,000 and $ 89,999 sold the quickest last month, averaging only 37 days on the market.
■ NOUN
cost
▪ The cost of a childminder averages £90 a week, with a nursery place around £110.
▪ With dollar cost averaging, the price swings are washed out.
▪ The medical costs average $ 2, 000 per case and sometimes run as high as $ 10, 000.
▪ However, he estimated that the cost will average $ 30 to $ 100 per detected mine.
growth
▪ The sector's reputation for efficiency and technical excellence is deservedly high - growth averaged 14 percent a year across the 1980s.
▪ Labor market growth averaged 140, 000 during the first 11 months of last year.
▪ Long term dividend growth might average 10 p.c.
▪ Since then its growth has averaged around 7 percent a year.
▪ During the period of rebuilding the economy after World War Two, the growth rate averaged only 1.4 percent.
▪ From 1980 to 1986 the annual rate of growth averaged c. 17 percent.
inflation
▪ If inflation averages 2 percent, prices double every thirty-six years.
▪ In 1974-79, the inflation rate averaged over 15 percent.
▪ Total personal income leapt by six percent during 1992 while inflation averaged around four percent.
▪ From 1955 to 1969 inflation averaged just under 2.8 percent perannum.
price
▪ They say that the pack reached only the more affluent areas where house prices averaged £150,000.
▪ The weekly sales were for the period ending Jan. 11, where prices averaged $ 3. 6270 a bushel.
▪ House prices may average three times incomes.
▪ The single-product equivalent, which has a trivial solution - set price equal to average cost - is illustrated in figure 2.4.
rate
▪ During the period of rebuilding the economy after World War Two, the growth rate averaged only 1.4 percent.
▪ Fertility rates are high, averaging nearly 6. 5 children, while contraceptive prevalence averages less than 8 percent.
▪ From 1980 to 1986 the annual rate of growth averaged c. 17 percent.
▪ Her rate now averages 140 over 80.
▪ In 1974-79, the inflation rate averaged over 15 percent.
▪ The jobless rate, which averaged 9. 5 percent in 1995, is expected to be little changed in 1996.
▪ Fixed mortgage rates averaged 7. 03 percent, down from 9. 15 percent a year ago.
▪ Adjustable rates averaged 5. 43 percent, down from 6. 82 in January 1995.
unemployment
▪ In 1921 unemployment averaged nearly 14%, and it obstinately refused to clear up throughout the decade.
▪ In the last half of the 1960s, unemployment averaged only 3. 4 percent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Primary-care doctors said they averaged over 25 patients a day.
▪ The fish averages about two inches in length.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He averaged more than a sack per game the past three seasons.
▪ However, he estimated that the cost will average $ 30 to $ 100 per detected mine.
▪ It so happens that this rate is exactly the output of the building industry, averaged over the previous three years.
▪ Last year, Harris averaged 16 points in 31 starts after Jackson was lost for the season.
▪ Postoperative values were similarly first averaged across the 40-min observation period and then among patients.
▪ Production and development Production in 1992 averaged 51,000 boepd.
▪ Since then its growth has averaged around 7 percent a year.
▪ Van Horn finished his career as the top scorer in Utah history, averaging 20. 8 points.