Example sentences of "[verb] that average [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst the poll tax in Kensington was set some 48% above government estimates , Institute of Public Finance figures suggest that average household bills would be a quarter lower than under the rates . |
| 2 | Unless the patient throughput per doctor or nurse at a reference centre is higher than that in the hospital , economies of scale suggest that average costs at this new tier will be greater . |
| 3 | These figures of speech — hyperbole , metaphor , irony , sarcasm — work only if the sender has enough knowledge to know that average house cellars will not hold millions of bottles , women are not made of iron , and so on . |
| 4 | If , for example , as one moves up the elderly age range , the proportion of married to non-married decreases , and if married couples are in general better off than the single or widowed elderly , one would expect to find that average income would decline with age . |
| 5 | The study found that average concentrations of particles under 2.5 micrometres ranged from 11 micrograms per cubic metre in the least polluted city to 30 in the most polluted . |
| 6 | A study of Cornwall in the early 1970s revealed that average earnings in the more rural employment office areas ( in the west or the north-east of the county ) were as much as 6 per cent below the county average , while earnings in the more urban areas ( for example , near Plymouth or Camborne — Redruth ) were 6 to 7 per cent above the county average ( Cornwall County Council 1979 ) . |
| 7 | The Government 's figures — let us for the moment assume that they have an accuracy which the Government 's abysmal record on predicting poll tax bills certainly does not justify — show that average council tax bills this year in Langbaurgh would have been £470 and in Middlesbrough £447 — £170 and £153 respectively higher than the equivalent fair rates bills . |
| 8 | ‘ You do n't have to be a rocket scientist ’ Americans will tell you , implying that average intelligence will suffice . |
| 9 | In order to set the scene , figure 7.1 shows that average household size has fallen over the past century . |
| 10 | If you have carried out the calculations suggested , you will have found that average spend per head in 1983 was roughly £9.00 , in 1984 £10.50 and in 1985 £11.75 . |
| 11 | Wages rose about 9 per cent , although inflationary pressure meant that average settlements would probably rise to 12 per cent in 1991 . |
| 12 | Every soldier knew that average life expectancy at the front was seventeen days . |
| 13 | Hence , if the learning phenomenon appropriate to a particular firm indicates that average costs ( over cumulative volume to date , not average cost in the year ) will fall by 20 per cent each time cumulative output doubles , one says that the learning rate is 80 per cent on 0.8 |
| 14 | This means that average household size in Great Britain fell from about 3.21 to about 2.56 persons over this period and this decline is expected to continue at least until to the end of the century ( Social Trends 10 , 1979 , Table 2.3 ; General Household Survey 1985 , 1987 , Table 3.11 ; Department of the Environment , 1986a ) . |
| 15 | This implies that average pensions rise in line with wages . |
| 16 | Mr Wriglesworth expects no increase in house prices over 1993 as a whole , but he forecasts that average prices nationwide will rise by 7% in the year to the fourth quarter of 1994 and by as much as 10% in London . |
| 17 | In its annual World Economic Outlook , published at the recent Washington meeting of the IMF and World Bank , the Fund forecasts that average GNP growth in the industrial world will ease to a still healthy 3% or so in 1989 and 1990 , and inflation , though it will rise to 3.8% this year , will drop back in 1990 . |
| 18 | Scottish HydroElectric estimates that average home bills will rise by 60p a week in 1994 and £1.25 in 1995 . |
| 19 | CIWF estimates that average stock density of 15 kg of fish per cubic metre is equivalent to keeping a 2-foot salmon in a shallow bathtub . |
| 20 | The group maintains that average in-patient charges have risen by only 8 per cent . |
| 21 | In fact , recent research suggests that average grain consumption per head in the village did not fall during the period : a vast amount of unused land was brought into cultivation and yields slowly rose . |