Example sentences of "average about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On average about four to five weeks . ’ |
| 2 | At the same time , currency of non-CIP entries has improved , since they are now listed on average about two months after publication date . |
| 3 | We eat up to ten times the amount of salt we actually need ; on average about two teaspoonfuls a day , half of which is added by manufacturers during food processing . |
| 4 | The women were interviewed in early 1971 using the interview schedule reproduced in Appendix II ; the interviews were tape-recorded and lasted on average about two hours . |
| 5 | The catch of skipjack from the month 's fishing was a mere 900 fish , weighing on average about 4 kg ( 9 lb ) each . |
| 6 | In the British population 70 year old men are on average about 4 cm shorter than 40 year old men , partly because of the general increase in adult height since the 1930s . |
| 7 | But we were doing on average about fourteen thousand sixteen thousand each year . |
| 8 | Since over the period numbers of seamen eligible for membership was on average about 90,000 , the union 's achievement was not impressive . |
| 9 | We were able to obtain data from the 1981 census for enumeration districts ( average about 150 households ) . |
| 10 | Similarly , estimates based on parish records suggest that in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries on average about 19 per cent of all families with children were lone-parent families ( Snell and Millar , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | After 1902 the duties on British manufactured imports to Germany were on the average about 25 per cent . |
| 12 | On average about 25 per cent of our turnover is for Group companies . |
| 13 | In the days of very rapid expansion , teachers in some inner-city schools stayed there on average about three years . |
| 14 | However , there was a significant minority of floating voters : on average about 20 per cent of the electorate . |
| 15 | The £200 driving lessons , which last ninety minutes , average about 20 miles an hour , quite fast enough when trying to sort out gears , brakes and throttle . |
| 16 | Cox , of course , had to make retrospective IQ estimates for her subjects but these are probably fairly accurate and average about 160 , with a range overlapping considerably with that actually found in the gifted children . |