| 单词 | average |
| 例句 | The doctor informs you that you have a dread disease, the average victim of which lives for five years. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Each year he drops off about seven thousand boxes and loses, on average, just one to theft. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Over the next three and a half years, American planes would drop a daily average of eight hundred tons of bombs on targets in North and South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But the South Bronx dancers, violinists, painters, and flute players will probably have the highest- average college enrollment in the city. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, as late as 1894, when the average English person was eating close to ninety pounds of sugar a year, the average Russian used just eight pounds. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I took it, on average, maybe thrice weekly. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z For instance, once all other factors are controlled for, it is clear that students from rural areas tend to do worse than average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z One reason just mentioned is that agriculture sustains much higher human population densities than does the hunting-gathering lifestyle—on the average, 10 to 100 times higher. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Time had moderated his early impulse for growth and he was a man of average height marked by smallpox scars, but his amazing power for manual destruction remained intact. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Although he had little trouble getting As in classes he liked, he had a C+ average and his ACT test scores were below the mean at the university. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They had contests to see who could catch the most fish in ten minutes, and the younger lawyer won with an average of 2.1 fish a minute. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Products of Berlin’s Viking Rowing Club, where they rowed as the Glider crew, they seemed, on average, to be a bit older than the Washington boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z CFCs also hang around for a long time–about a century on average–wreaking havoc all the while. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z With no tent, and often navigating with nothing better than road maps, he walked for 123 days, from April to August, averaging seventeen miles a day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He's dark skinned, brown eyes, low haircut, full beard, earrings in both ears, no tattoos, average height, average weight, average dude. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t recommend getting struck. Lightning kills an average of 47 people in America every year and severely injures hundreds, maybe thousands.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z But it also makes it hard for the average farmer to stay in business, even with government payments. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the average hermit crab isn’t particularly athletic, having to haul a clunky seashell around on its back, so the sports competition part of Abbey’s project sort of fizzled. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Batting averages are determined by number of hits divided by at-bats.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The average debt among graduates was two hundred dollars, it said, and the average four-year tab was more than two thousand. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The distance between close “neighbors,” even if it were considerably less than the average, would seem to preclude frequent popping in for a chat. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He punted for a forty-seven-yard average and kicked both extra points. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We finally pass a jackknifed truck and get back up to speed, but Radar calculates in his head that we’ll need to average seventy-seven from here to Agloe. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I had hoped to receive a computer, but truthfully, I didn’t believe that I would raise my grade point average high enough to win. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It sleeps or rests on average twenty hours a day. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z But if you count all the corn we eat, directly and indirectly the average American eats a ton of corn every year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “We just don’t see the test scores here matching up with the grade point averages,” he says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z "If you maintain a C average, you can stay in school and get your degree," he asserted. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Many people make somewhat similar estimates, and are surprised to learn that only five intermediaries will — on average — suffice. Somehow it does not accord with intuition.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In any average white neighbothood bar, you couldn’t imagine a known cat-man thief regularly exposing himself, as one of the most popular people in there. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z All but one of the others are female, with an average age I would guess in the late twenties, though the range seems to go from prom-fresh to well into the Medicare years. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And also because we've averaged about two classes together every year since the sixth grade. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “All right, let’s see how you are with batting averages. What is Joe DiMaggio’s lifetime batting average?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I rolled my eyes and wondered how many ridiculous phone calls the Rockport Police Department must receive in an average week. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The men soon discovered how difficult it was to condense a novel into sixty pages, the average script length for a one-hour program. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Arithmetic suggests that if England had been the size of the Triple Alliance, it would have executed, on average, about 7,500 people per year, roughly twice the number Cortes estimated for the empire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Their average age was twenty-eight, and some of them were in their midthirties, but they looked to be in terrific condition. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Then we took our average number and used it to predict the soccer field total by figuring out how many of our squares could fit inside the field. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z I figure Rowdy and I have spent an average of eight hours a day together for the last fourteen years. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z At the time, he was earning about nine times more than the average American industrial worker’s wages, but he was ready to devote his life to battling sin and alcohol. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Grace shrugged, like that was something that happened to normal, average, nice people every single day. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The average age of the group was eight. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z That means that a person who is six feet tall but otherwise identical to someone who is five foot five will make on average $5,525 more per year. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “You even got the Massachusetts part without trying. It’s so depressing. You don’t know what it’s like. An average white girl has no mystery anymore, if she ever did. Literally nothing to her name.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He never kept a woman more than a few months—the time span that he said was average before she began to make “permanent- arrangement-type noises.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Though he was of average build, his cheeks had a plumpness to them; this, along with the eyelashes, detracted, he feared, from what he hoped was a distinguished profile. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The next best reader averaged from a hundred to a hundred and ten papers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z On average, twelve hundred Congolese had been killed every day since 1998. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The parents of a child provided, on average, half the content of that feature; the grandparents, a quarter; the great-grandparents, an eighth—and so forth, all the way back to the most distant ancestor. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z However, between now and the average life expectancy of seventy-five, we will live about five hundred thousand more hours. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But she didn’t just lie about on the grass or in a hammock or a rocking chair like your average eighty-nine-year-old woman. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One person in every class with the highest grade point average receives a certificate. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z To answer this question we need to know the present rate of expansion of the universe and its present average density. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They also attended a weekly two-hour laboratory session for hands-on training in one of the wind tunnels, shouldering an average of four hours of homework on top of a six-day workweek. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z That, at least, is the average answer that most people give to that question. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Archaeologists have demonstrated that the first farmers in many areas were smaller and less well nourished, suffered from more serious diseases, and died on the average at a younger age than the hunter-gatherers they replaced. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their grade point averages counted only for bragging rights. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z At an average New York screening I once tapped the shoulder of the man in front of me, interrupting his spot review to ask if he planned on talking through the entire movie. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I had maybe an inch or two on him, and I was short, with an average build. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z "Because I'm just average, and they're all good looking or rich, or both, or super athletes or something." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z That means the average American farmer today grows enough food to feed 140 other people. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z From 1980 to 1996 he averaged two discoveries a year–not a huge payoff for hundreds of nights of peering and peering. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I came off as “just an average kid,” which I thought was pretty decent because, seriously, I’d been expecting worse. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The average distance between neighbors would jump to more than 2,000 light-years. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Offered in a year in which the average per capita income in the United States was $432, Strub’s purse caused a national sensation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The average cost of these horses was about $150 each, almost a year’s pay for most An inexpensive two-passenger buggy. people. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z If you asked an average taxpayer how he feels about a 6 percent utility increase, he’d probably be amenable. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Man!” he said, “but it made us afeard, for we expeckit that we should have to pay for it wi’ some rare piece o’ ill luck, so as to keep up the average. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The average speed of trains was fifteen to twenty miles per hour. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The curse of knowledge means that we’re more likely to overestimate the average reader’s familiarity with our little world than to underestimate it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “The average smartphone only uses two to seven watts to fully charge. These lenses need less than one watt.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In the early 1990s, by contrast, poorer students got 50 percent more aid on average than the wealthier ones, according to the College Board, the organization that runs the SAT entrance exams. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Even today, in a period of decline, the average human being is physically better off than he was a few centuries ago. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z While the average American salary at that time was $5,500 annually, Bobby, who certainly didn’t consider himself average, had made barely $1,000 for a year’s work. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Inside the average- size tent, children sat up front on the yellowed grass, and grown-ups crammed together on the few long rickety benches. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The Big City Lawyer turned out to be a man of average height with a Hollywood hairstyle and a capped-tooth smile the likes of which I had only seen on one person—a TV evangelist. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “On average, the Hamlin County Animal Control has 1,000 dogs and cats waiting to be adopted, and the shelter can only hold 500.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z They spend an average of four years studying with him. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she hugs me—not an average good-night pat, but a complete and total embrace. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Yet for the average person, the disadvantages probably outweighed the advantages. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A cheating teacher tends to be younger and less qualified than average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Traditional restaurants generally provide a product of higher average quality but of much greater variability, especially on the downward side. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The average hustler and criminal was too uneducated to write a letter. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And if the creature in that silo was one, it was even more gigantic than the average pteranodon. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I debate going back and changing a few answers, but at this school, getting them all correct is probably the average. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He was white, about fifty, thin and of average height, with dark hair and tanned skin. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z My performance was above average in all subjects, but I excelled in languages and the sciences. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Because there isn’t anything good to say to an average white boy to make him feel small. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Listening to the average citizen speak, it was easy to forget that this part of the world had not seen an arcanist burned for nearly three hundred years. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My general predisposition to spending a lot of time inside reading gave me a distinct advantage over the average Culver Creek student. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z There is some evidence that the size of the average Sapiens brain has actually decreased since the age of foraging. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A single spider may destroy in her life of 18 months an average of 2000 insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The doctor concluded that she was paranoid, but noted, as Hoover put it, that she “perceives items which would escape the observation of the average individual.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Perhaps it wasn’t remarkable in the average Englishwoman, but it was remarkable to Chacko. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Provided that each victim thereby infects on the average more than one new victim, the bacterium will spread, even though the first host happens to die. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The professor recited facts in a dull, earthy voice: the average age of onset is twenty-five; there may be no symptoms before then. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The average commuting time is twenty-four minutes, the same as Atlanta. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “I’m a bit heavier than your average backpack,” I warned. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z What was more, Ron seemed to have become, overnight, as touchy and ready to lash out as the average Blast-Ended Skrewt. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The blue whale has the largest heart, weighing more than a thousand pounds, the size of an average dairy cow. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Each scythe must perform a quota of two hundred sixty gleanings per year,” Scythe Faraday told them, “which averages to five per week.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Obviously, travel by foot was the slowest, an average of two or three miles an hour. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z His data had looked perfectly normal, disguised to be indistinguishable from an average player’s—I hadn’t even seen any shields installed to protect his info. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Today in the average supermarket there’s a selection of organic fruits and vegetables flown in from all over the world. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Compared to you, I’m a pretty average illusionist,” adds Dylan, “but I’m a really strong technologist.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Well, he felt he might have been more than an average student if he had contributed to books a fraction of the time he’d “wasted” on sports. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z That boosted her pay to $3,800—nearly three times the average U.S. salary. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The players on this particular Lightning team were big, and looked on average a good two years older than the Fugees. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I want to be average, but I also want an A. I have to think about colleges for next year, and they will want to see more than my SAT scores. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “Not only do blacks earn less on average than whites, but the differences in wealth and race are staggering,” Allen said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Since there are serious consequences to misinterpreting these statements as absolute laws, a responsible writer should insert a qualifier like on average or all things being equal, together with a slightly or somewhat. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Some people have more, and they’re called supertasters, and some have an average number, and they are regular, and some have less. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, average Cahokians understood the intent: to assure the city’s continued support by celestial forces. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z According to most estimates, by the mid-1770s, the average American colonist consumed more than three quarts of molasses a year—making it an irreplaceable part of the colonial economy. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It might be true that the average human being was better off now than he had been before the Revolution. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z On average, a man died in the mines every day, often crushed by coal cars or killed by explosions. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z “I doubt that your average white student could have said it much better.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z That voice is higher than the average male’s and clearer. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “What was the team average for the Yankees in the 1960 World Series?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The neighborhood’s median income was about $15,000 a year, well less than half the U.S. average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She showed pictures and shared prices: the average cost for one was $1,995. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I spent five sols driving in circles; I averaged 93 kilometers per sol. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The average teenager was willing to wear very uncomfortable attire. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Across the sheet are averages and standard deviations for the 107 dogs most recently adopted. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z When I reflected on it, I suspected the other parents thought it was funny that we had spooked the Ohio men, who were not exactly beloved by the average Coalwoodian. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The average kid’s hair grows in at about 0.14 mm each day, so in a few weeks you should look like new. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “I see. And your wages? On the average?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He rode, on average, fewer than two winners a month. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t really understand The Occupation because it didn’t seem like the kind of War we all knew and loved from your average made-for-TV miniseries. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But whereas I thought the big news today was Grandpa’s eloping, the first thing Papa said was something about the average life span in America being forty-seven years. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Among other things the law justifies is the experimenter’s belief that the average of a bunch of measurements of some quantity should approach the true value of the quantity as the number of measurements increases. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyone who has ever acted, in other words, can be linked to Bacon in an average of under three steps. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z At exactly three feet in height, Holly was only a centimeter below the fairy average, but even one centimeter can make an awful lot of difference when you don’t have many to spare. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I was average with an above-average ambition to break out of my neighborhood. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In the case of coins, it can take a long, long time for the lead to switch, longer often than the average life. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A score of ioo is average; you probably need to be just above that mark to be able to handle college. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The New York-based firm Media Dynamics estimates that the average American is now exposed to 254 different commercial messages in a day, up nearly 25 percent since the mid- 1970s. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus the average U.S. brewery produces 31 times more beer than the average German brewery. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The checks that exist in nature are such that out of the millions of young produced by each pair only enough, on the average, survive to adulthood to replace the parent fish. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Yayoi people averaged an inch or two taller, had close-set eyes, high and narrow faces, and flat brow ridges and noses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “If you do participate and complete the two-year program—keeping your grade point average at a three point five or above—you are awarded a scholarship to any Oregon college,” Mrs. Parker tells me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z To get this variable, Colin took the two people’s average age and subtracted five. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Black men can expect to die, on average, five years younger than white men. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Across the country, the upper middle class so dominates elite universities that high-income students, on average, actually get slightly more financial aid from colleges than low- income students do. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Right now the Appalachians are shrinking on average by 0.03 millimeters per year. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Later, when I had learned the full truth about the white man, I reflected many times that the average burglary sentence for a first offender, as we all were, was about two years. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z An exceptional trumpet player may be able to play — with good sound and technique — high notes that the average high school trumpet player cannot play at all. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They wanted tuition to fall on average to $467 a year. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Since there is an equal chance of a marble bouncing left or right at each peg, the marble stacks in the bins below will, on average, form the classic bell-shaped curve of normal distribution.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z There is some evidence that the average level has risen since then to a consistently higher figure, and individuals with occupational or other special exposures to insecticides of course store even more. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “The average wait time for all dogs is 12 days. Not counting puppies.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Surviving organs and other instruments from Bach’s time indicate that the average pitch was lower then than it is today, so his music is mostly performed at A = 415 Hz. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z On an average day in the United States, 320 people are shot with a firearm and some 90 people die from a gunshot wound. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “But, sir,” I said, “even without my mother tongue, my average comes out higher than a second-class pass. So how could I have failed?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He appears as nervous as me, which is amazing, since he can do an average of thirteen pirouettes, no matter the shoe, and I wasn’t even sure what a pirouette was all these years. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z All that can be had for an average of $1,500 a week per person, a price that has gone almost unchanged in fifteen years, Mathisen said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “That averages out to almost one combat mission every two months. And I’ll bet your total doesn’t include the time you bombed us.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I happen to have a short but slender thumb, and that proves I’m really compatible with a short, slender man with “average” endowments. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The average black worker made about half as much money as the average white. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The average age among women who have never gone to college has stayed at about twenty-two. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z On average, this would require only twenty-one tests to test fifty people. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I had 400 plants, probably averaging 5 potatoes each; 2000 taters. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I told him, “The average human body contains enough iron to make a one-inch nail.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I got an average of two letters a week. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The point is that, if you know only the average survival time and nothing about the distribution of the survival times, it’s difficult to plan intelligently. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We know the average link takes up about four inches, so if the count is off, we'll catch it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Gentle to the clumsy, girl-voiced boys whom he trained to be average, to be adequate, as he hit the soft fungoes to the outfield green. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Two-thirds of the adults have had four or more years of college and earn more than $100,000 a year, twice the American family average. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The average person lived many months without seeing or hearing a human from outside of her own band, and she encountered throughout her life no more than a few hundred humans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Expected Values: From Blood Testing to Chuck-a-Luck Coincidences or extreme values catch the eye, but average or “expected” values are generally more informative. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course the Internet can’t tell me if these results are correct, can’t tell me if I’m a perfectly average teenage girl of perfectly average health. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I wonder what life will be like a millennium from now, when the average age will be nearer to one thousand. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Ebright yawned that his varsity was nothing to write home about—“a good average outfit,” he called them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The overall average of human facial characteristics was the primary template for the operation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The ocellated icefish lives so far down deep in the frigid waters near Antarctica, his heart has to be five times larger than the average fish. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Our parents provide the list of ingredients and remind us to make healthy choices: one sport, two clubs, one artistic goal, community service, no grades below a B, because really, nobody’s average, not around here. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit shipped all over the Northeast, never stayed more than two or three weeks in one place, averaged one race every five days, and racked up losses to inferior horses practically every time out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z To the average white American, the word “Indian” conjures up an image of a mounted Plains Indian brandishing a rifle, like the Sioux warriors who annihilated General George Custer’s U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to make new friends, to feel like an average American teen. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Even after forty minutes of bargaining, the black men could get the price, on average, down to only $1,551 above invoice. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Despite receiving three to five feet of precipitation in an average year, this area is prone to drought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Beside each of them stood a man—some tall and slender, some burly, some average, all of them surrounded by at least three vigilant guards. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Apart from her arm travelling with the cigarette holder up to her lips on average every twelve seconds, she was still. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Here and there, piles of dust and scattered bones lay on the floor, which did not say encouraging things about the average wait time. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He says that when you look at the carbon in the average American’s cells, “we look like corn chips with legs.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A good muzzle-loader could on average fire about three to four shots a minute. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z According to one modern reconstruction, Dawnland diets at the time averaged about 2,500 calories a day, better than those usual in famine-racked Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Sometimes a reliance on averages can have more serious consequences than misshapen cubes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Chiron smiled at me sympathetically, the way he used to in Latin class, as if to let me know that no matter what my average was, I was his star student. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Between tournament fees, airplane tickets, hotel costs, and food, the average cost to compete in one World Cup competition was around $2,000, and there were eight World Cups a season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z While providing a small average slope into the crater, the ramp itself was rugged and bitterly uneven. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s in the monsoon region; annual rainfall in the coastal areas is about two hundred inches, and the average temperature of those areas is close to ninety degrees. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Since the start of the journey, they had zigzagged down the curvy river, traveling about sixty miles, which averaged to seven and a half miles a day so far. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “They can live over twenty years—feed on large rodents or other mammals—average about twelve feet but can reach nineteen—” He groaned loudly and spoke even faster. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z In contrast, the students with the teachers identified as cheaters scored far worse, by an average of more than a full grade level. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z This sixth stage always instantly eliminated what so often defeats the average social agencies—the characteristic addict’s hostility and suspicion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We also know that it reverses itself every 500,000 years or so on average, though that average hides a huge degree of unpredictability. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I averaged the links that were hanging and used that to help me come up with twenty-six. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z I again felt rather like an individual of but average gastronomical powers sitting down to feast alone at a table spread with provisions for a hundred. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z It's one of the high-speed Capitol models that average 250 miles per hour. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z At first glance, he looked to be an average, if attractive, young man. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Modern Sapiens sport a brain averaging 73–85 cubic inches. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The average ancient forager could turn a flint stone into a spear point within minutes. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The average world temperature, he says, would in the end be raised some thirty degrees, till it attains 72°. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Fifty thousand pounds in modern money, using a retail price index, but £725,000 in modern money using an average wage multiplier. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Three hundred dollars was a little more than the average person got paid in a month outside the camps in America. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He believed that any Navajo joining up would have a better chance of getting through boot camp than your average bilagaanaa. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z On average, the United States approves one million applicants annually as permanent residents. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He averaged 38.3 miles a day, with ten or eleven hours of running. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The scientists analyzed over 700 samples, each containing an average of over 500 identifiable seeds belonging to over 70 plant species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The online men too were gorgeous: 68 percent called themselves “above average,” including 19 percent with “very good looks.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The peculiar-looking man was of average height, but of an odd shape: Shadow had heard of men who were barrel-chested before, but had no image to accompany the metaphor. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He was well over average height; a long, dark cloak of coarse fabric masked all his clothing save his high-heeled leather boots. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Quebrada Tacahuay, the other Science site, was closer to the shore but even drier: its average annual rainfall is less than a quarter inch. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Everything about her seemed finer and more delicate than the average person. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Though he wore rimless glasses and was of but average height, standing just under five feet ten, Mr. Clutter cut a man’s-man figure. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand I got the feeling that there were more than enough foot-paths in England and the average refugee wouldn’t be interested in socializing. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In the diet of the average home, meats and any products derived from animal fats contain the heaviest residues of chlorinated hydrocarbons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He was having difficulty with it and his average midway through the fall was 71. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever the reason, Ren is no amateur at dealing with his security, and he knows how to protect himself in ways far beyond the average player. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z For, I cannot adequately express what pain it gave me to think that Estella should show any favour to a contemptible, clumsy, sulky booby, so very far below the average. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z When I arrived at the figure of 233, and worked out the average age was 33.3 recurring, everyone was still shouting their heads off. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps this is all for show, and doesn’t reflect what the average Egyptian really thinks of Americans. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The average farmer grew enough food to feed twelve other Americans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z One of Kelsey’s reports showed a 97 average, but then she got a 78 on a Spanish test. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z That sounds impressive, except that Tjaden then went back and performed an even more heroic calculation, figuring out what the average degree of connectedness was for everyone who had ever acted in Hollywood. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On average, the report found, the average high schoolers texted for an hour and thirty-five minutes each day. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In one case, the scores on tests where cheating was possible were 50 percent higher, on average, than the “honest” scores. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He kept careful track of the registration tallies: They were averaging an impressive seven thousand a week in midsummer but were still falling short of the goal. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “It’s much larger than average,” the man with thinning hair corrects himself. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t an average kid who’d decided to take up basketball in his spare time. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Many fine points of detail are overlooked by the average man. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Before, he’d been the height and build of an average man. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In fact, he was so incredibly small that he weighed about half of what the average mouse weighs: two ounces. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z As you raise the temperature of a gas, the average molecule moves faster and smashes harder into the walls of its container. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The other was a light mulatto of average height. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z By the 1930s, however, utility holding companies came to symbolize the corporate corruption and greed that the average American saw as the root cause of the Great Depression. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Pick the Hits rated every song on the album, with two scoring average ratings and eight scoring below average. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Burnham was a lackluster student: “the records of the Old Central show his average scholarship to be frequently as low as 55 percent,” a reporter discovered, “and 81 percent seems the highest he ever reached.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Most impressively, fully 72 percent of the women claimed “above average” looks, including 24 percent claiming “very good looks.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z While this may have been scary news in terms of Medicare and Social Security, the average American had little to fear from the growing horde of oldsters. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z During one apparently typical summer he reported covering an average of eighteen miles daily. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Newton’s law, the extra stars would make no difference at all to the original ones on average, so the stars would fall in just as fast. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A year earlier, however, these students did even worse, averaging just 4.1 on their fifth- grade tests. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z However, our uncertainty about the present average density of the universe is even greater. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Daily I saw young Jewish boys and girls receiving instruction in chemistry and medicine that the average black boy or girl could never receive. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z By the way, Roy White really was hitting .429, which was .205 points over his last season’s average, which seems to me to be important enough to talk about at supper. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z In a later work, he announced that the number of worms to be found in an average acre of English country soil was 53,767. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The average African, I said, was still cautious about joint action with Indians and Coloureds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Once we finished tossing and counting, we headed inside, where we learned how to average all our data. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z The average Lovelace fifth grader could not differentiate this from her normal state, but Hazel was attuned to these kinds of subtleties. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Where I come from, finding shelter is a problem the average teenager might confidently leave to his parents. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z An average day was a six-pack of beer after work. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z His winning average of 19 percent ranked him in a tie for sixteenth among fully employed riders. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The story said that random urine tests had shown that 21 percent of Sing Sing inmates were on drugs, compared to a statewide prison average of 6 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But we weren’t going to get the average—not for our crime. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay, what does the average University of Georgia student get on the SAT?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “The average grade was 82. The highest grade was 95, and the lowest was 60.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “An average tree will give twenty gallons in a season,” Mr. Chris said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Order it for instance, to direct agricultural activity on the basis of an average July temperature in Iowa of 57 degrees Fahrenheit. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z For flat runs, he had the Norden bombsight, an extremely sophisticated analog computer that, at $8,000, cost more than twice the price of the average American home. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z In many parts of the world the fatality rate from parathion is startling: 100 fatal cases in India and 67 in Syria in 1958, and an average of 336 deaths per year in Japan. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Until I could go back home and be an average Cuban girl, this would suit me just fine. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z John and I came up with a contract stipulating that once the computers arrived the 35 students with the highest grade point average would win a computer when they graduated. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z And with my average brain and average grades I lead a pretty average life. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Maybe even more important, it gave the average citizen—trapped in Philadelphia and at the mercy of the mysterious killer—cause for hope. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Now far above national average in height, weight, strength. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Our snares had done well enough and the woods were flush with greens, but this was really no more than our average Friday-night haul. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I was in my fifteenth year; in terms of schooling I was far behind the average youth of the nation, but I did not know that. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot—how could he find perfection in such an average day? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Each payout is multiplied by the probability of its occurring, and these products are then summed up to give the average or expected payout. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The average American, for example, can distinguish easily between the verses and refrain of any pop song, but will have trouble recognizing what is going on in a piece of music for Balinese gamelan. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z However, that translates into an average expansion of only 8 miles per year, a trivial feat for a hunter-gatherer likely to cover that distance even within a single day’s normal foraging. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their answers ranged from thirty seconds to five minutes, with the average answer two minutes. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Would the law of averages catch up to him? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Slightly unhinged by the perilous events, Matthias giggled to his friend, “It’s all in the average day’s work of a warrior. No use of a warrior worrying, ha ha ha.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z When he played, my ear was glued to the radio, and no game ended without my nefiguring his average up through his last turn at bat. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The universe as a whole would have continued expanding and cooling, but in regions that were slightly denser than average, the expansion would have been slowed down by the extra gravitational attraction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew that the average white man would not approve of his liking such talk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z You are above average in intelligence, but somehow your reasoning is off the beam. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z As for weight, the men were in line with the national average, but the women typically said they weighed about twenty pounds less than the national average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And he’s shorter than the average person, but not short enough to be considered “short.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The school year in the United States is, on average, 180 days long. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z If zero were nothing, the student could claim that the grades for the courses he failed did not exist, and demand a 4.0 average. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The average wait time to be adopted is 12 days. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I longed to tell them, “I won’t hurt you, honest, give me a chance, come on. How about it? I’m an average teenager, just like yourself, with the same aspirations and heartaches.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On average, girls test higher than boys, and Asians test higher than whites—although blacks, as we have already established, test similarly to whites from comparable backgrounds and in comparable schools. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He was of average height as well, and had wished ever since he had stopped growing that he were just one inch taller. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I used to feel so proud, inside myself, because I knew that I was supposed to be top of the averages. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z According to a study by the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, each year the average jockey is injured three times and spends a total of almost eight weeks sidelined by injuries incurred on the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I had spent more time than the average child pondering unfortunate accidents of birth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z War prisoners apart, the average citizen of Oceania never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia, and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The average black woman would submit because she needed the money badly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The system then helpfully reminded me that I needed to keep my average above 8.5 if I wanted to get a raise after my next review. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I maintained my A average, and my fast-paced lifestyle became the norm. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Mammals weighing 130 pounds have an average brain size of 12 cubic inches. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Another prodigy—and not just an average one. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z But they are also almost all tall: in my sample, I found that on average, male CEOs were just a shade under six feet tall. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z A little puzzled, Harry followed Dumbledore through the creaking door into a space a little smaller than the average cupboard. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Oh, it’s just your average takedown of Hollywood’s extremely superficial and stereotypical roles black women are assigned in the movie industrial complex that is basically ruining our lives,” I explain. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Arriaga’s Red Cross workers retrieve, on average, ten migrants per month who have fallen or been beaten up by bandits or gangsters. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In September the average number of deaths per day began to rise at an alarming rate, and relatives and neighbors hurried anyone they suspected of having yellow fever off to Bush Hill. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Twenty penguins, cooked by the fuel of their own skins, was a fair daily average, Hurley said later. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “And think of the poor farmer when it doesn’t rain all year: if there wasn’t an average yearly rainfall of 37 inches in this part of the country, all his crops would wither and die.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z In one seven-month period in 1971, Gates and his cohorts ran up 1,575 hours of computer time on the ISI mainframe, which averages out to eight hours a day, seven days a week. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z This situation also means that today the average individual almost certainly starts life with the first deposit of the growing load of chemicals his body will be required to carry thenceforth. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In the first year, it took in an average of $18,500 each month; by the final year, it was collecting $68,400 a month. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z To her, I’m sure we’re the “below average” kids no one told her about when she was getting her credentials. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The average person doesn’t understand that a professional athlete isn’t born, she’s made. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Well, not exactly. But obviously it’s important, or else why would it be called key grip instead of average grip or not-so-critical grip?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z In the average American household, the TV set is on for seven hours per day. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Yes, there still is a huge difference between the lifestyle of the average New Guinean and that of the average European or American. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The expected value of a quantity is simply the average of its values weighted according to their probabilities. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z First of all, because the average black child is more likely to come from a low-income, low-education household, the gap is very real: on average, black children still are scoring worse. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Usually he was the least noticeable of boys: He was of average size, of an average pale complexion, his brown hair was of average length, and he wore average clothes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa Nate later explained to me that unlike the average citizen of Century Village, rabbis don't have former lives. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z They’re slightly bigger than average, and both muscular and strong, especially in comparison to me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Terrell averaged twenty-three points a game last year, and I racked up many assists by feeding him. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Tall parents tended to have tall children, he discovered—but on average. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Too many in a freshman class would probably lower the college’s average SAT score, thereby damaging its ranking by U.S. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She knew that, while we were advanced for our age in some subjects, we were only average or below in some intangibles such as leadership and sociability. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I’m not terrific, Charlotte. I’m just about average for a pig.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z We have averaged about ten and a half miles a day; eleven and a half omitting the two days spent waiting out the blizzard. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Since 1977, an American’s average daily intake of calories has jumped by more than 10 percent. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He was taller than an average human—about seven feet. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I didn't worry about accounting—I had a 100 average in that class. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I knew that four was a low number, low enough to merit a nickname, but I didn’t know it was less than half the average. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z This was a great deal of money when you consider that the average yearly income in Philadelphia then was around $200. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The vast wasteland of television programming had finally reached its zenith, and the average person was no longer limited to fifteen minutes of fame. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Your average paragraph about ninja monkeys—or is it?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z But those average figures conceal big differences among the industries of each country, related to differences in organization—and those differences are very instructive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nor have they stopped the average South Korean from getting richer, better educated, and better housed in what has become the fourth largest economy in Asia, the eleventh largest in the world. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Dear Diary, Ever since Ms. Gruwell announced that the Freedom Writers with the top thirty-five grade point averages would win computers when we graduated, I started getting As and Bs on my report card. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z There was the fact that they were an unusually big and athletic bunch, averaging 190 pounds, beefier and stronger on average than the juniors and seniors. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Of course it’s all based on averages—we can go days or even weeks without gleaning—but we must meet our quota before the next conclave. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z At first a cart takes me an average of forty-five minutes and there may still be three or four mystery items left at the bottom. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I received an email from your math teacher. Ms. Finch said that she graded those unit exams. She listed the class averages for each period.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z An average man can detect just a few molecules of butyl mercaptan, and most of us can sense the presence of musk in vanishingly small amounts. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The former Marine was the first pilot to average supersonic speeds in a transcontinental flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A similar tendency toward the average or mean holds for the children of very short parents, who are likely to be short, but not as short as their parents. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One seemed to enter the facility every three or four days, on average. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z NOTE: In case you are curious, the size of the whole tone of the "mean tone" system is also the mean, or average, of the major and minor whole tones. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z And during the second half of the season, Babe Ruth again hits for a higher average than Lou Gehrig. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He handed something to me—handed it to me as impersonally as the average waiter distributes menus. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The average January temperature in the city is 18 degrees Fahrenheit, well below freezing. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The average distance between the stars is a few light-years, a light-year being, we remember, about ten trillion kilometers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In a typical galaxy, consisting of a hundred billion stars, a supernova will occur on average once every two or three hundred years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She is the new American average, a living-flesh girl with chocolate M&M eyes, and hair that bounces, and a roll of love around her tummy. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Instead they urge him to join the math team and maintain his A average. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The coverage only lasted a couple minutes before the station flipped over to this pretaped feature about how the average Iraqi was gearing up for war. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z My rates might be a little higher than average, but my guests do not have a single complaint. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If you look at any species of primate — at every variety of monkey and ape — the larger their neocortex is, the larger the average size of the groups they live with. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This figure is an average, as the Earth’s orbit is an ellipse. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It shouldn’t be surprising to learn that elderly people are not very criminally intent; the average sixty-five-year- old is about one-fiftieth as likely to be arrested as the average teenager. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Nothing you wouldn’t find carved into the desk of the average teenaged boy. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Since temperature is simply a measure of the average energy—or speed—of the particles, this cooling of the universe would have a major effect on the matter in it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Generally your average troll would be at the very least irritated by the ultra-high-frequency tone. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Baltimore City was now averaging over three hundred murders a year, making it one of the per capita deadliest cities in America. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Storage in human beings has been well investigated, and we know that the average person is storing potentially harmful amounts. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It seems as if the other contestants—this is a show on which the average age is thirty-four—simply don’t want the older players around. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It would not have been so bad if the average individual were not torn between the enormity of the charge, if true, and its sensational folly, if false. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Most of the other players average a five. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Residents there were stopped at a rate thirteen times the city average. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She hoped her book would be enjoyed as a work of art, but she also hoped it would help the average person understand—and thus better appreciate—the insect world. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In the early 1700s, the average person in England consumed an estimated four pounds of sugar a year. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z As federal judge Prentiss Marshall explained, “The average person encountered will feel obliged to stop and respond. Few will feel that they can walk away or refuse to answer.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z From 1871, when he joined the university as a professor, to his death in 1903, his courses attracted an average of slightly over one student a semester. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z During the first half of the season, Babe Ruth hits for a higher batting average than Lou Gehrig. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Think about the absurdity of brushing your teeth, of arguing with your mother over the appropriateness of what you’re wearing to school, of homework, of grade-point averages and boyfriends and hot school lunches. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The average Nantucket house price last year jumped 26 percent, to $1,672 million, said H. Flint Ranney, a veteran real estate broker. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Since I got this office gig, Tai’s been bugging me about keeping up my average. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z With this figure in hand, Mann and Fields calculated the average tenure of more than three hundred other lifetime appointments, including popes, European kings and queens, and U.S. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “There is a bigger gap between the average person and what they are aspiring to,” Schor said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Four-year-old Chinese children can count, on average, to forty. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The average stabled horse spends just five minutes at a time lying down to sleep, almost always at night. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Their working conditions look like those at your average insurance company. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z McCandless's postcards, notes, and journals ... read like the work of an above average, somewhat histrionic high school kid—or am I missing something? Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Obviously, that is no more than an average long-term trend, with innumerable shifts in either direction: 1,000 amalgamations for 999 reversals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As sixth graders who were taking the test in the eighth month of the academic year, these students needed to achieve an average score of 6.8 to be considered up to national standards. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In high-school I did real well, made above average grades the first year or two. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “After a year, you seem to be more or less alive. I wonder how that’s possible when the average life expectancy in these mines is a month.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The courtroom was smaller than I’d imagined, about the size of an average living room, with wooden benches lining either side of a narrow aisle. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z An average student, or Satisfactory work were the usual comments that his teachers wrote in his Annual Progress Reports. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Prediction in history, as in other historical sciences, is most feasible on large spatial scales and over long times, when the unique features of millions of small-scale brief events become averaged out. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The students in classroom A averaged 5.8 on their sixth- grade tests, which is a full grade level below where they should be. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps there is some major and as yet undiscovered atmospheric constituent—nitrogen, for example—which keeps the average molecular weight of the atmosphere high and prevents blowoff. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We had to have a good grade point average, good attendance, and take more classes than the average student. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He looked surprisingly plain, with mousy brown hair, tan skin, and average height, though Celaena had trouble not staring at his scar-flecked mouth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z At the end of the season, The Milwaukee Journal published the averages of all Major League players, and since this pitcher hadn’t played again, his ERA was 135, as I had calculated. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty-eight percent of the women on the site said they were blond, a number far beyond the national average, which indicates a lot of dyeing, or lying, or both. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The present comparative rarity of tuberculosis results in large measure from the fact that the average person now seldom comes into contact with the tubercle bacillus. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At the cafeteria, where a shrinking slice of my consciousness still resided, Daisy was telling Mychal that his averaging project shouldn’t be about people named Mychal but about imprisoned men who’d later been exonerated. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Today the Jockeys’ Guild, which covers riders in the United States, receives an average of twenty-five hundred injury notifications per year, with two deaths and two and a half cases of paralysis. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Most of you will have anywhere from ten to fifteen fears in your fear landscapes. That is the average number,” she says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Ninety-six seemed to be the limit; seventy-two a good average. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z An average acre of cotton that year received 63 pounds of toxaphene. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The average farmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z His Rad Lab colleagues could only say that they recalled Cowie as “neither particularly careful nor careless, but just average.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The average supermarket doesn’t seem much like a field of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “The left, then the right. Below the ankle. You will have stumps available to use within six months. Then your hands, at the wrist. They heal somewhat quicker. Five months is a fair average.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Brian, Derek, and the raft traveled one hundred and nineteen miles down a river with an average current speed of two miles an hour, in just under sixty-three hours. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The fighting, when there is any, takes place on the vague frontiers whose whereabouts the average man can only guess at, or round the Floating Fortresses which guard strategic spots on the sea lanes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The average listener tuned in five hours a day. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z When these sixth-grade students reached seventh grade, they averaged 5.5—more than two grade levels below standard and even worse than they did in sixth grade. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She’s wicked throwing an ax but about average with a gun. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The highest possible score on the test is 117 points, with the average score, according to Friedman, somewhere around 71. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My grades were average at best, and eventually I learned to live with my father's disappointment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I ended up with much better than a C average. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z More of a wispy, dirty white, like clouds on an average winter day. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z On an average night, one need engage in only a few minutes of channel surfing during prime-time hours to stumble across images of gangsta culture on television. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Still, the food at Ms. Brown’s funeral was definitely above average. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z For purposes of comparison, the average backyard swimming pool is slightly larger than this Ptolemaic wineskin, containing about forty thousand gallons of water. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z This egalitarian atmosphere helped to moderate the demanding routine of the average Rad Lab staff member. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They were also a lot richer, taller, skinnier, and better-looking than average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It bristled with statistics that sounded comforting but were impossible for the average layperson to fully comprehend. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Putting the two assumptions together, we conclude that the average toy block in this collection has the interesting property of having three inches to a side and a volume of sixty-three cubic inches! Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In his person, Beowulf was below average size; he looked taller sitting down than standing up, because his broad chest and shoulders were out of proportion to his legs, which were short. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z The average score in that class was 20.96, meaning that the average person in the class knew 21 people with the same last names as the people on my list. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I calculated my grade point average, 3.77, and prayed and hoped that my counselor was right. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Male and female users typically reported that they are about an inch taller than the national average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “All this goes to illustrate the low mentality of the average listener. They do not see 1/10 of what they read. They must not listen to 1/2 of what they hear.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z But in its second year Del Mar needed a boost; daily attendance averaged just six thousand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Clearasil needs time to work. Killing pimples requires patience. By the way, Ben, since women live seven years longer than men on the average, I imagine I’ll be attending your funeral one day.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Their homes are worth an average of $400,000, twice the national average, and they have nearly twice as many rooms as the average house. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The average human heart beats seventy times a minute. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z There was no need, he said, for his children to be held back by a school system geared for children of simply average parents. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Correctional officers had the power to punish young inmates by adding time to their sentences, with the result that California juveniles were locked up almost three times longer than the national average. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Before long there were twenty late pickups per week, more than double the original average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z By that time, the average person in England ate ninety pounds of sugar a year—and in the early twentieth century, that number kept rising. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The Crane family had been averaging a move almost once a year ever since. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z By Sunday evening, June 11, six cars had been hung—an average of two a day since the first turn of the wheel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Our smartest kids are average compared with Japan’s smartest kids.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, I’ve agreed involuntarily to the following: weekly counseling; maintaining a high B average; and participation in at least one extracurricular. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z As the collar of the average Western worker made its journey from blue to white over the course of the last century, the value of the persuasive arts for career advancement has grown in proportion. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Unfortunately Professor Ghering and his Survivalist cronies thought they were smarter than the average foot patrol. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z When you’re struck with one of these catastrophes, the only thing an average man can do is grit his teeth and try to minimize the damage. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was mediocre in English, social studies, French, and computer science, and well below average in math and science. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z The earth orbits the sun, traveling at an average speed of 107,200 kilometers per hour. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Most people use mean for average, but I want to be sure. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z On winter nights the average temperature is a degree below freezing—cold, but not any colder than New England, and considerably warmer than one would expect at 12,600 feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The people primed to be rude eventually interrupted—on average after about five minutes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He was staring at the batting averages, but he saw nothing except the image of a little girl in a brown plaid skirt, scared out of her wits, biting her lower lip. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Here, I was a teenaged girl with average upper body strength, hair like a signal beacon, and a mental condition that could make me think I was being attacked even when I wasn’t. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Workers in rural areas, which are home to two-thirds of the population, earn less than a dollar a day on average. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, one can still ask: all other things being equal, or else in the long run, or else on the average, what form of organization of human groups is best? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In other words, the average forager had wider, deeper and more varied knowledge of her immediate surroundings than most of her modern descendants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Come to think of it, my whole face is really pretty average. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I averaged 80 kilometers per sol on my way to Pathfinder. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “One. Five-tool talents hit for average and put the bat on the ball.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z This effect surely contributes a non-genetic component to the superior average mental function displayed by New Guineans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Back home, we only had it on special occasions: birthdays and holidays and report card days, so long as I made a B average. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Whites, on average, are more punitive than blacks, despite the fact that blacks are far more likely to be victims of crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At the zoo the adult lions and tigers ate on average ten pounds of meat a day. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Then Roy remembered that his father seemed to have a supernatural memory—for instance, he could still recite the batting averages of the entire starting lineup for the 1978 New York Yankees. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the one attribute at which I'm not below average: body heft. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Shapley had found a stellar standard candle, a star noticeable because of its variability, but which had always the same average intrinsic brightness. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Black women were quoted a price, on average, of $1,195 above invoice. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z However, because the universe is not exactly the same in every direction, but only on average on a large scale, the microwaves cannot be exactly the same in every direction either. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the six months of the fair an average of twelve thousand people would attend each of Cody’s 318 performances, for a total attendance of nearly four million. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The class is averaging an 83.75 so far, not including homework. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Within a couple weeks, the class quiz average had risen to 97 percent. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z But you were nothing more than an average guy. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z We were averaging ten bushels of oysters a day. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Not lovers, they both just appear to like donuts more than your average bear. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Based on their current average speed and the number of miles that they had already traveled, they would run out of food thirty-five days before they would finish their journey. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “I’m mad that I didn’t notice. I should have noticed. Like with the dogs and the averages.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The average distance between stars out there is 20 million million miles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It should occur on average seven times per year, separated by intervals just slightly longer than that endured by Noah on his putative ark. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His father said that if he was to learn kendo more would be expected of him than of the average person. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The texture of the meat can be shocking to the average American tongue, but I like it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z An average humpback weighs 50 tons, and is 15 meters long. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Though it probably has its moments, the average day spent in hiding is bound to beat the average day spent in prison. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “If I put the average eighth grader in the same position as Renee, I’m guessing that after the first few attempts, they would have said, ‘I don’t get it. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Moine’s argument is that what separates a great salesman from an average one is the number and quality of answers they have to the objections commonly raised by potential clients. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the average, the Sun and the planets spend forty million years in a spiral arm, eighty million outside, another forty million in, and so on. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “In Boot,” Johnny Manuelito said, “a good many of those average men who hope to be Marines can’t stand up to the physical challenges.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of the plankton and the cold, green waters, he might only be able to see twenty feet in front of him on an average day. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z We managed to make it past all the superficial labels like “at risk,” or “below average”; even the ones that were put on Ms. Gruwell, like “too young and too white.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Maybe the average adult knows fewer than 1,500 other adults, or, more likely, most of the people he or she does know live close by and are not spread about the country. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But for the season as a whole, Lou Gehrig has a higher batting average than Babe Ruth. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This pattern is particularly striking given that less educated people tend to be more punitive and blacks on average are less educated than whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Among the five thousand men held there, the average sentence is 89.9 years. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Given that the average American male is five foot nine, that means that CEOs as a group have about three inches on the rest of their sex. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It was also at about this time that they were able to work out that the cycle of Yellowstone’s eruptions averaged one massive blow every 600,000 years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We head to a diner where the average age of the customers is ninety-four, and applesauce seems to be the most popular item on the menu. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Every swing of the bat, I recalculate Robinson’s average. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “A ‘C’ average is required and Benjamin Meecham is the only boy in class that has the grades.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In reality, that’s not true: on the average across all industries, America’s industrial productivity is higher than that in either Japan or Germany. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But what if I am just an average accountant? The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z It read, “This is a topic about which the average individual knows very little.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Your average paragraph about ninja monkeys—or is it?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z When the professors learned that students who did not maintain a certain grade point average could lose their deferments and be drafted, they decided not to give any grades. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Her playing is as wooden as that of any average girl who takes her lessons once a week. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Deborah took an average of fourteen pills a day, which cost her about $150 each month after her husband’s insurance, plus Medicaid and Medicare. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A Jewish kid would smile, but Link isn’t your average Jewish kid. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The Crane family had been averaging a move almost once a year ever since. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The average purchaser is completely bewildered by the array of available insecticides, fungicides, and weed killers, and has no way of knowing which are the deadly ones, which reasonably safe. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In the five years that he had dedicated to this work, he had produced an average of only six paragraphs monthly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to advance in the tournament, you must prove yourself not merely above average but spectacular. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The ten states with the highest average temperatures in the country that summer were all in the West. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “The average person has an IQ of one hundred,” the voice-over continued. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Its average SAT scores ranked forty-sixth in the nation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Walled off from wet air by both the Andes and the Humboldt Current, the Peruvian littoral is astonishingly dry: the average annual precipitation is about two inches. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Every day on average two people were destroyed at the city’s rail crossings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Within the average, older children ages eight to eighteen spent nearly double the time with media than toddlers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Recall the chestnut about the man who reports that, though his head is in the oven and his feet are in the refrigerator, he’s pretty comfortable on average. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He told her that the reason he was responding was that her letters were so “weird” and quite different from the average fan letters he received, but he thanked her for them. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The most amazing part is that Ms. G and Mr. Tu created a contract stating that whoever has the highest grade point average from now until graduation will win a computer for college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It was a handful of average, middle-aged white dudes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z On the offense, the Carter line averaged six one and 243 pounds, and two players would sign scholarships, with SMU and Houston. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That was one of his dad’s favorite expressions, and right now Chet was batting average at everything. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z My grandfather is a slim person of average height with heavy, heathery-gray eyebrows. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z During the next 14 years the average annual loss of elms was only 2/io of 1 per cent a year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The average height of the mine roof was five feet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “The average lifespan of an adult mayfly can range from: A. One minute to one hour B. Thirty minutes to one day C. One day to one week D. Two weeks to one month.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z As it turns out, the average number of items answered on that questionnaire varies from country to country. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Gradewise things went pretty well and I ended up with a high cumulative average. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We are not complacent about the average age of our contributors and are keen to publish promising young writers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Even in regions where there were more matter particles than average, the gravitational attraction of the matter would have been outweighed by the repulsion of the effective cosmological constant. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s only eleven o’clock, but the average bedtime in Lanternwood is probably closer to eight thirty, which might explain why we don’t run into anyone. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z In fact, as I shall explain in a moment, modern “Stone Age” peoples are on the average probably more intelligent, not less intelligent, than industrialized peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z According to those, he’s got a 69 average. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The average score became an agent’s overall grade. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z On the average, a supernova occurs in a given galaxy about once every century. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The central limit theorem states that under a wide variety of circumstances this will always be the case—averages and sums of nonnormally distributed quantities will nevertheless themselves have a normal distribution. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s nothing peculiar about me. I’m the most average person you’ll ever meet.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It turns out Roli and I have to do sixty whole hours of free labor every year, while keeping up a B-plus average. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Since starting in the car business more than a decade ago, Golomb has sold, on average, about twenty cars a month, which is more than double what the average car salesman sells. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z By a conservative calculation, this huge expansion of New York’s police force would be expected to reduce crime in New York by 18 percent relative to the national average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I would grab me by the shoulders and explain that it was great that I felt different, and that I was far better than average. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, space being spacious, the average distance between any two of these civilizations is reckoned to be at least two hundred light-years, which is a great deal more than merely saying it makes it sound. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In recent years the State of California has reported an average of more than 200 cases of accidental parathion poisoning annually. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Athletes, legacy applicants, and minority students all got in with lower scores on average. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z All my numbers are adamantly average—not too high, not too low. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z If a student takes four courses and gets A’s in two but fails the other two, he receives a GPA of 2.0, or a C average. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He was of average height, a sturdily built man of forty-seven, but how he maintained his weight was a puzzle. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z All you had to do was put a white girl anywhere close to the average black man, and he would respond. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They weren’t rich; they were just average people. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Even though I maintained an A average in all of my classes in middle school, I had a real aptitude for math and science, which is why my parents tried to steer me toward medicine. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Nearly every dinosaur that the average person can name– stegosaurus, brontosaurus, diplodocus, triceratops–was found by one or the other of them.* A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A prodigious breeder, the Horklump will cover an average garden in a matter of days. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There were clouds painted on the ceiling, and the few pieces of furniture left seemed too small for an average adult. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z In school, of course, they always managed to make it sound really boring, all graphs and averages and measuring people’s pupils when they looked at different faces. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z When I was looking on the Tribune, there were 433 jobs under Computer/Info Systems, under every other category I looked in there was an average of 15-20. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I read once that, on average, we replace the majority of our cells every seven years. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The curtains were organdy, not your average white organdy but silver-gray, so the air came through with a slightly smoky shimmer. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “One lie in all these years, that’s not such a terrible average when you consider it saved our lives.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He says it’s all about control and endurance, but I suspect it has more to do with the fact that his lung capacity is 20 percent larger than the average person’s. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The average species on Earth lasts for only about four million years, so if you wish to be around for billions of years, you must be as fickle as the atoms that made you. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z On average, the men purchased in Louisiana were an inch taller than the people bought in the other slave states. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z On average, according to one study, college-educated women have their first child at age thirty, up from twenty-five in the early 1970s. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z This is the mean, or average, of the two tones, that gives the system its name. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The average age in our platoon, I’d guess, was nineteen or twenty, and as a consequence things often took on a curiously playful atmosphere, like a sporting event at some exotic reform school. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They were probably of average height, but to us tall Dinka, they seemed like tiny, tiny people. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z This is profitability even by modern Wall Street standards: if the Dow Jones average had risen a similar amount since World War II, the index would now stand at over twenty thousand. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The average dose received was only about 175 rads, a little less than half the dose needed to kill an average person. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z These are approximate, average ranges for each voice category. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He and I both knew perfectly well that New Guineans are on the average at least as smart as Europeans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If she’d looked at a map, counted her money, researched average cab fares and highways and traffic conditions, those kids would have made it. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Multiplying the average by the number of Tododahos, the two researchers estimated that the alliance was probably founded in the middle of the twelfth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The scores of the students at City College were less, on average, than adult scores. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, think how much better off you’d be, just because of averages,” he explained convincingly. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Regions in which the density was slightly higher than average would have had their expansion slowed down by the gravitational attraction of the extra mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to maintaining an A average, taking all honors and AP classes, and playing on the volleyball and fencing teams, I had to go to the foundation three days a week, plus Saturdays. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The average toy block in this collection, we might assume, is three inches on a side. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Suburban children, meanwhile, are in the middle of the curve, while urban children tend to score higher than average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He then went on to algebra I, a course that the average college-bound student took in ninth grade and some took in eighth. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Note that this reflects top speed, not average speed over a distance, which would be slower. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Did they talk to each other more than average? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a 93 average and I was holding my head above water. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Her observation came at a time when media use in general was exploding among children, up to an average of around ten hours a day of screen time, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He was only a freshman, too, but he was averaging twenty-five points a game. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The average adult would probably have been reduced to slapping the keyboard. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The first American race, run around Evanston, Illinois, had been held only eight years before, with the winning car ripping along at the dizzying average speed of seven and a half miles per hour. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s an average rate, in other words, and you can apply it to any large sampling. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And, as Milo waved good-by, he smiled warmly, which he usually did on the average of 47 times a day. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Cars are far too heavy for the average human. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He told us he had started in Maine in deep snow and had been endlessly caught in blizzards, but was still averaging twenty-five miles a day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z |
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