Example sentences of "[art] average [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Between 1980 and 1990 the average attendance at Britain 's 67 racecourses grew from 4,600 to 4,900 ; the number of owners from 16,400 to 18,000 ; and the number of racehorses in training from 10,650 to nearly 13,000 . |
2 | The average attendance was about a hundred and had particular appeal to young women factory workers and those in domestic service . |
3 | In 1889 the average attendance at the morning School was 64 pupils and 4 teachers and in the afternoon 100 pupils and 12 teachers . |
4 | In 1891 the average attendance in the morning was 68 pupils and 7 teachers and in the afternoon 127 pupils and 10 teachers . |
5 | The average attendance in the 121 years of its existence has been 60–80 pupils . |
6 | The new school suffered from a degree of excess capacity for quite a number of years : by 1894 the average attendance was 109 , Miss Harris acting as assistant mistress ; she was shortly replaced by Benjamin 's daughter , Minnie Titford , and they were joined by Miss Maud Reading , the infants ' mistress , as the average attendance rose to a hundred and twenty . |
7 | The new school suffered from a degree of excess capacity for quite a number of years : by 1894 the average attendance was 109 , Miss Harris acting as assistant mistress ; she was shortly replaced by Benjamin 's daughter , Minnie Titford , and they were joined by Miss Maud Reading , the infants ' mistress , as the average attendance rose to a hundred and twenty . |
8 | The average attendance at the Grammar School in the six years to 1881 was 138 , but in 1882–86,78 . |
9 | The regular adherents of the congregation are about 100 ; the average attendance from 150 to 200 , and the number of members as far as can be ascertained about 25 , but this can form no criterion of what the congregation may become under a regular and thorough ministry . |
10 | Although placemen never formed a majority in the Commons , attendance at the House was often low — the average attendance per session during William 's reign was 238 — so their significance could be immense if they consistently and unanimously backed the government . |
11 | Only 2,222 turned up at the Vic for the 3–1 win against Exeter on Tuesday well below the average attendance for the season , 3,500 . |
12 | Add on VAT at 17.5 per cent and the revenue men siphon off £1.34 ; 67 per cent of the average pump price of £1.95 . |
13 | Bear in mind that if you deploy a Pump Wagon right in front of one of your Orc or Goblin units there is a good chance it will get in the way of their advance — the average Pump Wagon move is 7″ while a march move for Orcs or Goblins is 8″ . |
14 | However , for the average factory worker the rankings will be different . |
15 | The average factory worker is paid a wage which is unrelated to productivity or protects and which is squeezed out of management , often through painful industrial disputation . |
16 | In Moscow , where the average factory was smaller and factory workers were outnumbered by artisans in small workshops , social polarization was less extreme and labour protest less fierce . |
17 | Let us pay Lord Taylor the courtesy of assuming that he does not believe the social circle of the average judge to be a complete guide to right thinking . |
18 | Thus when , i.e. the polymer chain is larger than the average hole size , the viscosity will be correspondingly high , whereas when , the viscosity will be low . |
19 | Michael Jensen and Kevin Murphy of Harvard Business School found , in a 1990 study , that the average pay of chief executives of big American firms had barely caught up , in real terms , with what similar bosses received in the 1930s . |
20 | High farce was reached when a union official declared : ‘ Every worker should get at least the average pay rise . ’ |
21 | But the average pay was still below the police plus there was job security — there were n't a lot of jobs paying pensions then . |
22 | In 1977 , the average pay gap was still almost as large — 58 per cent at the geometric mean — but the women in jobs were more representative of their generation and more dissimilar to men in terms of work experience and education . |
23 | ( Hartman has shown that the average person has one or less nightmares a year ; and only one person in 500 has them on a weekly basis . ) |
24 | A well balanced diet will provide enough iron for the average person , but sportspeople may need to supplement their diet with 15–20g ( 0.5-O.7oz ) of iron per day . |
25 | Fundamentalists believe so confidently in the reality of their message and of the Jesus they preach that it is within the reach of the average person . |
26 | It is clear despite this that not enough is being done , and the seriousness of the position is still not fully realized by the average person . |
27 | The average person , irrespective of weight , has too much refined sugar in their food . |
28 | The best way to train with weights , for the average person , is to do repetitions of movements using relatively light weights . |
29 | Going up one flight of stairs to visit the lavatory is not worth recording as exercise for the average person ! |
30 | It will long remain a problem to the average person that these sheds had such wide popularity and that so little use was made of the cheaper , cleaner , or , in fact , better umbrella sheds . |