Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] average [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trying to claim that , in spite of those subsidies , average net farm income is lower than the average Scottish wage of £14,100 a year wo n't wash according to Scottish Office reckoning , because that comparison is not valid . |
| 2 | The Manual English group ( who had parents who were ‘ language competent ’ deaf persons ) were better than the average manual group ( whose deaf parents ' written language was ‘ grossly deviant from standard English ’ ) . |
| 3 | To complete this numerical picture , the average spend per head of further education was almost fifty five pound per head , nearly five pound fifty more than the average Metropolitan District . |
| 4 | Some 4,500 stand tickets priced at Fijian $15 — more than the average daily wage — sold out within two days . |
| 5 | It is doubly unfair because it hits thousands of workers who are earning less than the average industrial wage . |
| 6 | North of Clachan Bridge it has remained as a clear bench on either side of a strait no wider than an average English lowland river . |