Example sentences of "than average [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mentally handicapped ’ is the most common term used in Great Britain to describe a section of the public who possess a lower than average level of intelligence . |
| 2 | However , the LFS also showed a higher than average level of temporary working amongst certain highly skilled workers , most notably teachers and nurses . |
| 3 | This Chair , has er , been a particularly difficult year with a , with a higher than average level of er , sickness , er amongst staff . |
| 4 | The standard theorems of welfare economics assume away fixed costs ( increasing returns ) of the sort that both milkman and newsagent incur — each additional customer costing less to supply than average cost , at least within a certain range . |
| 5 | So what you get with this package is a roomy hatchback with plenty of power on tap , great fun to drive , and better than average handling abilities . |
| 6 | Associated with this is a higher than average birth rate , a comparatively high level of natural increase , relatively heavy out-migration and a young population age structure . |
| 7 | Or rather they would be if they had a side of slightly more than average demeanour . |
| 8 | The firmness of the Polychromos Pastels is due to their slightly higher than average binder content ; this accounts for the crayons ' notable strength and low dust factor , reducing accidental breakage and keeping the hands relatively clean during use . |
| 9 | Indeed an even more striking feature of the results was that the individuals examined were especially high on a measure of ‘ ego strength ’ , indicating a greater than average resistance to mental breakdown : the finding is particularly interesting because the latter is usually very low in subjects who deviate markedly on the clinical scales of tests like the MMPI . |
| 10 | And there is no doubt in my mind that this infant is of higher than average intelligence . |
| 11 | Thus the Newsom Report , which examined secondary schooling for children of average or less than average ability , concluded that the proportion of schools in slum areas which were seriously inadequate was twice as high as the proportion of all schools in the sample . |
| 12 | This investigation considered the education of pupils between 13 and 16 of average and less than average ability . |
| 13 | Evidently the unique thoroughness of its muster book was complemented by a more rigorous standard of assessment than in most shires , since in 1522 personal wealth there averaged £97 per thousand acres , compared with as little as £61.7 in 1515 and £64 in 1524 , and , mostly having less than average wealth , the sixty-nine additional men roped in in 1522 can not account for this difference . |
| 14 | In the cities , where competition is intense , to be seen to be involved with clients at the top of the commercial ( and to a lesser degree social ) tree , publicity will take very different forms , but whether it comprises the full page recruitment advertisement or a high ranking in some statistical table devised by the editors of a legal journal , a bigger than average spread in a legal directory or an article by one of its partners explaining some development unique to the firm , the message will be the same : we are professional people of the highest calibre who run their practice efficiently and with success ; we have earned the respect of our fellow professionals and the esteem of our clients who are themselves of comparable stature to ourselves . |
| 15 | They will have lower than average life expectancy , although with improved standards of medical care , many now live into their fifties and sixties . |
| 16 | There are reasons , therefore , why Britain might be expected to have had a somewhat higher than average share of its workforce in manufacturing industry . |
| 17 | The explanation is not that the occupations concerned contain a substantially higher than average share of temporary workers , but rather that a higher than average proportion of the temporary workers concerned supply their services via an agency . |
| 18 | Fewer than average feel informed about the Unit , or believe it wants their views — these , too , are measures of line management communication . |
| 19 | Certainly , some men of smaller than average build use the drugs to attain a ‘ normal ’ build . |
| 20 | The Manuel d'artillerie was a technical work of more than average competence , a 500-page closely-reasoned and well-documented study designed to appeal to professionals . |
| 21 | Wordsworth also gives a description of a family spinning in the sunshine in The Brothers , but the Lake District has a higher than average rainfall and in wet and windy weather spinners no doubt sought shelter where it was available . |
| 22 | The fact that he was an outstanding , if not completely graceful athlete , that he played anything with a racquet commendably well — I remember battling him at tennis in the oppressive heat of Guaruja to an 8–8 deadlock before we both gave up to avoid heat prostration — that he is a better than average golfer and could just as well have played football or cricket and enjoyed all sports , made him less exclusively obsessive about racing . |
| 23 | Several pilot projects are under way to show that women can be persuaded to attend for screening and that lower than average bone mass will be found in some . |
| 24 | Natural prevention is in operation to the extent that a greater than average proportion of the affected children will be miscarried or stillborn . |
| 25 | Predictably , a greater than average proportion of such children do develop symptoms of schizophrenia — or of some related ‘ borderline ’ condition , such as schizotypal personality disorder . |
| 26 | The explanation is not that the occupations concerned contain a substantially higher than average share of temporary workers , but rather that a higher than average proportion of the temporary workers concerned supply their services via an agency . |
| 27 | However we have a higher than average proportion of 25-39 year olds and 60-69 year olds . |
| 28 | It may be thought that the highest-scoring universities in this list attract a higher than average proportion of indigenous students with local area research interests , but examination of the names of thesis authors from Strathclyde and Dundee universities , and confirmatory personal communications with the relevant departments , suggest that many of their students are not of local origin , but have come to the universities from overseas . |
| 29 | The deal also meant that Kylie could be given a better than average contract , he revealed in Business Review Weekly . |
| 30 | ‘ This is a much higher than average response . |