Example sentences of "on average [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the second half of the century the Empire 's population rose on average 1.5 per cent a year , the total soaring from 74 million at Emancipation in 1861 to 126 million in 1897 . |
| 2 | Whereas on average 2.4 per cent of households were victimized by burglary , in the high-risk areas it was 6.3 per cent ( Hough and Mayhew , 1985 , Table M ) . |
| 3 | In the last free elections in what is now East Germany , in 1946 , the SED , after its forced alliance with the SPD , won on average 45 per cent of the vote . |
| 4 | Salary increases in the accountancy profession were on average two per cent in the private sector last year , the lowest in 25 years . |
| 5 | Samples from different sites contain on average 38 per cent iron , 6.5 per cent manganese , 0–3 per cent aluminium and smaller amounts of other metals . |
| 6 | The growth of GDP , which had averaged 5.4 per cent annual growth in the first half of the 1970s and 0.8 per cent between 1975 and 1980 , went into reverse , dropping on average 5.7 per cent a year over the period from 1981 to 1988 . |
| 7 | The CEGB 's Magnox series , for instance , was expected to produce on average 75 per cent of its maximum output each year . |
| 8 | For example , a recent German study , which aimed at controlling blood phenylalanine concentrations between 60 and 300 µmol/l , produced IQ results no better than those in British subjects , in whom the aim was more relaxed control ( 180–600 µmol/l ) , though the blood phenylalanine value was on average 100 µmol/l lower in the German subjects . |
| 9 | Yet on average 73 per cent of UK adults now use some form of credit , compared with 22 per cent in 1969 , and 33 per cent have three or more loans , compared with three per cent in 1969 . ’ |
| 10 | Target funding is the estimated budget increase needed to cope with rising demands ( on average 2 per cent in real terms each year ) against which the actual budget can be compared , with shortfalls accumulated from year to year . |
| 11 | Ian Byatt , OFWAT 's Director General , believes we 'll all be paying on average 50 per cent more for our water by the end of the decade . |
| 12 | One survey showed that five European drug companies were charging Indian customers on average 350 per cent the European price of their products . |
| 13 | On each such line , there are on average some c*n possible middle points , where c is a number independent of n . |
| 14 | Some would argue that the compound rates of return required by venture capitalists — on average 20 per cent to 25 per cent p.a. , but sometimes up to 50 per cent for start ups-are too high , but this is difficult to argue against given the nature of the investments involved and the high degree of risk . |
| 15 | In Britain , each of us gets on average 40 per cent of our calories from fat . |
| 16 | The Podmore survey indicated that on average 15 per cent of a practices ' time would be taken up with company and commercial work . |
| 17 | Anyone failing to pay the total amount shown on that account when they received it ( the end of the ‘ free credit ’ period ) would have to pay what he owed plus interest , which in 1990 was on average 2.2 per cent monthly or 29.8 Annual Percentage Rate ( risen from 23.1 per cent in 1988 ) . |
| 18 | Neither does it resolve the problems of people who are on income support in Scotland , since any increase in benefit will be a flat-rate payment across the UK , whereas it costs on average 30 per cent more to heat a house in Scotland . |