Example sentences of "[verb] that on average " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the basis of an estimated 10 per cent of the Earth 's surface currently being part of a hot-spot swell it has been calculated that on average hot-spot epeirogeny should affect a particular area of crust about every 600 Ma . |
| 2 | The 1988/89 ‘ actuals ’ show that on average public library authorities in that year spent 50% of their budgets on staffing , 16% on books , and 10% on premises ( with the other 12% on debt charges and central establishment costs ) . |
| 3 | Tests comparing the RISC with the VAX using similar C compilers show that on average RISC uses only two-thirds more instructions and RISC programs were only about 50 percent larger even though size optimisation was virtually ignored . |
| 4 | Studies based on relative accounting profits reveal that on average mergers have been unprofitable . |
| 5 | This baseline showed that on average Lindsay picked her nose three times per hour for 2 ½ minutes at a time . |
| 6 | If their own price rises by 10 per cent and they know that on average other prices have risen by 5 per cent then they will increase their output . |
| 7 | ‘ Scientific ’ support for this view has been provided by intelligence tests which indicate that on average blacks score 15 points below whites . |
| 8 | Suppose that on average 80% of the 1.3 m. electors took the trouble to vote — say 1.0 m . |
| 9 | I gather that on average owners take two holidays in their own unit for every one arranged through an exchange scheme . |
| 10 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |