Example sentences of "[det] [conj] the average [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consumption financed from government transfers ( pensions etc. ) rose from 5 per cent of GDP in 1952 to 10 per cent in 1973 , and it was partly to pay for this that the average proportion of incomes taken by direct taxation rose from 16 per cent in 1952 to 22 per cent in 1973 . |
| 2 | Incidentally , I have plenty of pocket money , as the Chinese have been very generous , and I gather have given us almost twice as much as the average wage for a Chinese university or Institute teacher — which is absurd in a way , since all our food and accommodation ( as well as free transport and haircuts ! ) are found for us . |
| 3 | It was calculated that the United States was using up eighteen tons of raw material per head of population per year , or ten times as much as the average citizen of the rest of the non-Communist world . |
| 4 | She used her face and hands much more than the average Englishman , though perhaps not more than the average Italian . |
| 5 | My attitude is that somebody has to do the job and if I get bumped off , I have experienced much more than the average bloke . |
| 6 | And it 's preferable to have a golf course rather than agricultural land which might be heavily dosed with chemicals six times a year , which is more than the average course . ’ |
| 7 | It seems to have been a fairly general rule in the later enclosure awards that the minimum width for inter-village roads should be forty feet between the ditches , though local roads carrying more than the average traffic for the district were often laid down forty-five or fifty feet wide . |
| 8 | However , we found the machine could still be used for much more than the average heat gun . |
| 9 | Do you live far from a good shopping area so that you will need more than the average amount of food storage space and a large deep freeze ? |
| 10 | All the platinum ever mined would fill no more than the average living room . |
| 11 | Mr Davis said Probyn was seeking a payout of £150,000 pounds , far more than the average policy . |
| 12 | The North African wild cat weighs only slightly more than the average moggie . |
| 13 | Which towns will need more than the average number of ( i ) schools and ( ii ) hospitals and nursing homes ? |
| 14 | Rome had probably more than the average number of beggars . |
| 15 | She used her face and hands much more than the average Englishman , though perhaps not more than the average Italian . |
| 16 | Highly skilled and highly trained stockmen on intensive livestock farms can , it is true , earn much more than the average wage ( though often for longer and more awkward hours ) , since such workers are in relatively short supply , but they are the industry 's élite and constitute no more than 15 per cent of the labour force . |
| 17 | Although we are unable to ascertain the price increases for the various insurance companies in Northern Ireland and Great Britain as we can in the Republic of Ireland , nevertheless our research does indicate that even after allowing for these rate increases the cumulative increase for Autocover in Northern Ireland and Great Britain since the commencement of the scheme is significantly less than the average increase charged by most other insurance companies during the same period . |
| 18 | But it is still cost-effective since the rest of its annual costs , £3.85M or about £10/tonne , are 27 per cent less than the average cost of refusal disposal to the GLC and only half those of long-distance hole-filling contracts ( up to £23/tonne ) . |
| 19 | THE average radiation exposure to a Sellafield site worker is now less than the average dose which people in the United Kingdom receive every year from natural radiation sources . |
| 20 | Let's rewrite that slightly differently and just say l over L open brackets into D T P L over D L minus T P over L , alright , what 's that in economic terms , well that 's simply , right , marginal product of labour in the brackets , right , minus the average product of labour , okay , so if if the marginal product of labour here is greater than the average product right , the righthand side is going to be positive right , therefore , average product is going to be positive okay , the marginal product is greater than the average product ah change the slope of the average product curve is going to be er positive therefore average product itself is positive and rising let's write that down as the marginal product of labour is greater than the average product of labour that implies changing slope of the er average product curve right , is positive implying that average product is positive itself and rising Okay , if the marginal product of labour , right , is less than the average product right , that implies the slope of the average product curve is positive therefore the average product itself , right , is positive and falling sorry right , so we can rewrite that somewhat succinctly , using the following D A P L over D L , right , is greater than equal to or less than zero if D T P L over D L , right , is greater than , equal to , less than right T P L over L the average product . |
| 21 | This figure is less than the average number of new company registrations every month . |
| 22 | This is almost the same as the average poll tax bill of £564 . |
| 23 | However , the model is unstable in that though the average weighting of standardised mortality ratio was around 0.5 ( 0.44 ) for the six regions , it ranged from 0.2 in Wessex to 0.72 for the Trent region , depending on which regional dataset is used . |