average amount
collocation in Englishmeaningsofaverageandamount
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average
adjective
uk/ˈæv.ər.ɪdʒ/us/ˈæv.ɚ.ɪdʒ/
An average number is the number you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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amount
noun[C]
uk/əˈmaʊnt/us/əˈmaʊnt/
a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot ...
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(Definition ofaverageandamountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Political experience is theaverageamountof experience that ministers have in any significant cabinet portfolio.
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Moreover, the proportion of students relying on commercial credit had risen since 1998/99, as had theaverageamountthey borrowed from these sources.
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Although the convent's credit varied from 200 to 20,000 pesos in single transactions, theaverageamountwas usually between 3,000-5,000 pesos.
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A standard questionnaire was used to record theaverageamountof available doctors' and nurses' time per occupied bed-day in each center (7).
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Even a two per cent annual house price increase up to 2011 would raise theaverageamountof equity by a half.
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There was no obvious trend observed between theaverageamountof time required for germination and median seed mass for each of the ten plants.
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The response variable is the girl'saverageamountof physical activity per week at various ages.
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Among those who had personal income, theaverageamountfor women was 2.4 minimum wages, which was 30 per cent lower than men's.
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Theaverageamountof chlorophyll a per 1 g of dry weight was estimated.
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Fitted exercise, on the vertical axis, represents theaverageamountof leisure time physical activity for the adolescent females, measured in hours per week.
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Portfolio experience is theaverageamountof experience that ministers have in the specific cabinet portfolios that they hold.
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What is now to be computed is in fact the probability with which a process term satisfies a formula within a givenaverageamountof time.
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At this point of the analysis, each village had a set of parameters that measured theaverageamount of water used per hectare per irrigation for each crop.
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Table 3 shows that by picking these optimal female achievements, in 1973, theaverageamountby which female performance fell short of male performance was less than 10%.
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If we got up to 5 million accounts, theaverageamountrequired per account would be about half as much.
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Two of each model are purchased and theaverageamountpaid for each vehicle is £8,500 for the super-mini group and £15,000 for the family group.
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For those adults who pay charges, theaverageamountpaid for a course of treatment in 1989–90 was £25.
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There are no arrangements to ensure that dental laboratories actually receive the calculatedaverageamount.
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Theaverageamountreceived, £75 a year, equates to one week's pension.
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