Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] an average " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , however , he could give no indication of an average contract value , saying that it depended on an individual company 's cost structure , and on how many services it required . |
| 2 | Harris , Sofianos and Shapiro ( 1990 ) estimated that the price effect of an average programme trade on the NYSE in June 1989 of $9 million was only 0.0225% . |
| 3 | If there were such ‘ memory peptides ’ and each was present in the brain in the concentration of scotophobin , then to code for the memories of a human lifetime would demand that the brain contained a mass of peptides weighing something of the order of 100 kilograms — or rather more than the weight of an average human . |
| 4 | Linfield certainly need all the help they can get to overcome a side with an average age of 22 . |
| 5 | With the precious metal that has been undetected for so long in the folds of these hills , disseminated through the rock in an average ratio of half an ounce to a ton of stone , the sheer volume of likely debris is worrying . |
| 6 | At the moment computers are increasing in speed by an average factor of ten per annum , and the number of computers in use in the Western world is increasing by about twenty-five percent per year . |
| 7 | Analysis of Prime Ministers ' involvement in parliamentary debates shows that in the course of an average year they will participate in six debates and make six statements on policy , usually on the economy , foreign affairs , and government business . |
| 8 | During the course of an average year , something between 220 and 250 aircraft accidents , as defined in the regulations , occur in the UK . |
| 9 | The net income of an average family , a husband and wife with two children , is up by 37 per cent . |
| 10 | The plastic tube is perforated with holes slightly larger than the thickness of an average maggot . |
| 11 | ‘ We have a divorce law which allows marriages to be broken up after less time than the run of an average HP agreement , ’ Mr Field said . |
| 12 | The best performance results were obtained using the same constrained finite state grammar as HARPY with an average branching ratio of 10 . |
| 13 | The dairy industry had a high standard of management with an average yield of 5,152kg in 1981 . |
| 14 | From 1885 there was also a flourishing Band of Hope which met in the Tabernacle with an average attendance of 99 by the year 1889 . |
| 15 | But they were clearly under considerable stress when making their decision , which involved refusing consent for a vital operation for a baby with no other problems than those associated with Down 's Syndrome ; problems which once the operation had been conducted , would not prevent the child from an average life . |
| 16 | Almost a third admitted doing no work in an average day and more than half said they had used soft drugs . |
| 17 | After Lyle Shelton pulled out Destefani backed off the power and held the lead for the next three laps to take the chequered flag at an average speed of 450.835mph . |
| 18 | The World Cup Committee adhered strictly to the letter of their own rain-laws that ‘ in matches where play is interrupted or delayed the number of overs are to be rearranged so that both teams have the opportunity of batting for a minimum of 15 overs ( 25 overs in the semi-finals and finals ) according to the number of overs calculated on a basis of an average rate of 14 overs per hour . ’ |
| 19 | Bouguer anomalies include a correction for altitude but only on the basis of an average crustal density . |
| 20 | One attempt to assess the performance of publicly owned industries presents a picture of an average rate of growth of productivity per man very similar to private manufacture but , within that , very wide variations between a high for British Gas and a low for the National Coal Board . |
| 21 | Any picture of such a tree , with ordered lists of children , conveys a much more thorough image than does a picture of an average graph , because the picture can exhibit the order in each list of children . |
| 22 | Veteran climber mike Banks , who 's now 67-years-old , is again giving hope to the rest of us when he takes a team with an average age of 60 plus out to Janoli in the Gharwal Himal . |
| 23 | However , some of these children were subsequently adopted , and when followed up some years later showed a remarkable recovery with an average IQ of 85 . |
| 24 | The risk of a death through a work related accident in an average 40-year working life is one in 328 , compared with one in 1246 for manufacturing and one in 3733 for the service industry . |
| 25 | A recent survey showed that more than 7,000 people telephoned Colchester General in an average day . |
| 26 | If the experiences of some other child prodigies are any guide , Nicholas might end up as a teacher at an average school . |
| 27 | A housewife with an average ‘ score ’ was Joan Hubbard , an ex-shop assistant married to a toolmaker . |
| 28 | In fact , on a fast PC with an average hard disk , it can be quicker to load a smaller file and decompress rather than to load the full-sized equivalent . |
| 29 | The sulphate content of an average United Kingdom diet is about 5 mmol/d . |
| 30 | It is estimated that the carbon dioxide output of an average household in theUK is 6.5 tonnes a year , equivalent to a two star rating . |