How to Use on average in a Sentence

on average

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  • But meetings as close as this one are quite rare, occurring on average once about every 40 years.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 3 July 2026
  • Maybe Black people are better at basketball than White people on average.
    — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
  • In recent years, visits to food pantries and soup kitchens have increased 84%, on average per month, compared to pre-pandemic levels.
    — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Fourth, Housing Court needs more staffing and support because on average cases can take up to 15 months to resolve.
    — Shimon Shkury, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Pest control costs between $40 and $80 per month, or $80 to $160 per treatment, on average.
    — Alora Bopray, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • But in Florida, the period between the signing of a death warrant and an execution is roughly one month, on average.
    — Pamela Colloff, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
  • Residents relocate, on average, to places where monthly housing costs run $672 lower.
    — Jonathan Tower, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • The introductory course for PPEL required students to read, on average, just twenty-seven pages a week.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • One child has been killed in Gaza every day on average since October, according to a CNN tally of health ministry figures.
    — Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
  • New Yorkers pay some of the country’s highest taxes on their income, more than $12,000 on average per person between state and local governments.
    — Troy Closson, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • The Harris Poll shows that, on average, Gen-Z pet owners outspend every previous generation.
    — Natalia Shahmetova, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Yoga practitioners spend on average US$90 a month, and the yoga industry is worth more than $80 billion worldwide.
    — Herpreet Thind, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Last year, for example, Chevron charged 73 cents per gallon, on average, more than Costco and Walmart, and 54 cents more than other unbranded gas.
    — Jerry McNerney, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
  • Before Israel and the US launched strikes on Iran in late February, more than 100 ships per day transited the strait daily on average.
    — Deva Lee, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
  • Compared to North Platte, Nebraska, Pittsburgh on average would see a much smaller value for its Bowen Ratio.
    — Trey Fulbright, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • Pediatric surgeons earn $450,810 a year, on average, as of 2024, according to federal data.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 5 July 2026
  • Studies have shown testosterone produced during male puberty does lead to more muscle mass, larger hearts and lungs, greater body height and longer limbs on average for boys and men, according to the American College of Sports Medicine.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 30 June 2026
  • Secondly, the height difference, with England’s starting XI on average seven centimetres taller than DR Congo’s.
    — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • The model estimates, for instance, that a 55-year-old who received only a one-time $1,000 seed investment could expect their account to grow to $38,000, on average.
    — Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 3 July 2026
  • Having conducted on average one massive strike and several smaller attacks against Ukraine every week between January and May, Moscow only launched two bigger assaults against Ukraine in June.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • In the last decade, health officials have fielded reports of 2,000 cases annually on average, including 1,200 life-threatening neurological illnesses and about 100 deaths.
    — ABC News, 1 July 2026
  • Michael Tippett, a climate scientist at Columbia University who studies the ties between El Niño and weather patterns, said that on average, there is no strong link between El Niño and shifts in summer weather patterns over the US and Europe.
    — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 1 July 2026

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