Example sentences of "that [prep] average " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing the time the dot was in any particular position , Libet was able to calculate that on average the experience of the conscious intention to act was reported as beginning about 200 msec before the movement began . |
| 2 | When agronomists held courses for peasants , they fretted that on average only 150 turned up , as compared with attendances of 4000 at a single conference in Smolensk guberniia . |
| 3 | He argues : ‘ I have little doubt that on average we will see a premium of about a third , but it could take a few weeks to get there . |
| 4 | This meant that on average a girl would have to obtain higher examination marks than a boy to secure a place at such a school . |
| 5 | Neither effect is large , but the result is sufficiently different for us to feel uncomfortable about averaging the two effects ; it would not do justice to the situation to say that on average there was no effect of education once age was controlled . |
| 6 | If this baseline showed that on average the child was 4 hours later in going to bed , you know it would be unrealistic to start the intervention programme which suddenly requires him or her to go to bed at 7.30 . |
| 7 | Mitchell has calculated that on average in the 1760s two new towns per year appeared as the source of printed material and that this had grown to an average of seven per year in the 1790s . |
| 8 | It found that on average , women expect to be taken out to dinner ten times before they 'll have sex with a man . ’ |
| 9 | The Podmore survey indicated that on average 15 per cent of a practices ' time would be taken up with company and commercial work . |
| 10 | Statistics show that on average 924 prescriptions are dispensed each month . |
| 11 | Suppose that , in the illustration above , the new minibus scheme provides a service that on average is one-third faster ( previous average journey times being approximately 15 minutes ) but costs 10 per cent more ( with the present average fare being 30 pence ) . |
| 12 | And keep it so it 's just ticking over , so that on average you 're absorbing two of these neutrons , say and just one is going on to st start another one , and you just you know ju It 's very fine control on the fuel rods . |
| 13 | They will have an unrestrained fight ; let us suppose that one will suffer serious injury first and be the loser , and that on average a hawk has an equal chance of winning or losing . |
| 14 | One can therefore say that the observations of the gamma ray background do not provide any positive evidence for primordial black holes , but they do tell us that on average there can not be more than 300 in every cubic light-year in the universe . |
| 15 | Our experience has shown that on average obtaining the syntactic information requires about 20 seconds of run time per word ( including garbage collection ) . |
| 16 | They found that on average the unit trusts had increased their investments in short-term assets from 9 per cent in 1972 to 27.9 per cent in 1974 . |
| 17 | Marsh found that on average there was a fall of 0.9 per cent for a short period after the shares went ex-rights . |
| 18 | They found that on average , a gastrin concentration of 1000 pg/ml ( -500 pmol/l ) gave maximal gastric acid stimulation . |
| 19 | The brothers found that on average over the six months they had incurred costs for advertising , petrol etc. which amounted to £10 for each bed sold . |
| 20 | A recent USA study ( Hayes:nd ) has indicated that on average a university spends 4% of its budget on the library . |
| 21 | Now it says on average for , and then essentially we looked at the three main support of erm protectionist powers , like the E E C , U S A and Japan right , and they said that on average alright for every one dollar benefit alright for every one dollar benefit , one agricultural support , right it actually costs right one one fifty dollars of the general statistics in order to give a pounds worth of support to domestic farmers , we er have to find one pounds fifty right . |
| 22 | We found that the number of visits that on average that they can do has increased by four or five hundred per cent . |
| 23 | In the West Mercia force , which polices Hereford and Worcester , it 's estimated that on average , one officer is attacked every day . |
| 24 | Er because they know that on average unless things change a lot , that they they 're following this curve this growth this growth curve . |
| 25 | Can do yes but they reckon that on average each generation of people is bigger bodily built than er parents . |
| 26 | For instance , did you know that on average they have increased spending on books and equipment by ninety percent and that sixty percent of schools employ at least one more teacher and many employ more classroom support staff and that morale among teachers is widely reported to be higher , even where before those teachers opposed grant maintained status . |