average interval
collocation in Englishmeaningsofaverageandinterval
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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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interval
noun[C]
uk/ˈɪn.tə.vəl/us/ˈɪn.t̬ɚ.vəl/
a period between two events ...
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(Definition ofaverageandintervalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Providing that a sufficient number of couples apply stopping behaviour, an overall reduction in theaverageintervalwithin given final family sizes will be observed.
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Theaverageintervalbetween first and second birth for women with uncompleted families of two children was 2-95 years.
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Theaverageintervalis clearly a weighted average, where the weights depend on parity progression ratios.
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Theaverageintervalbetween eruptions was 3.8 years, ranging from 0.3 to 10 years.
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Such an interval could be termed an 'averageinterval' of x years to distinguish it from the interval in completed years.
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Table 2 can be re-calculated to give theaverageintervalbetween successive confinements for completed families of various sizes.
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Since theaverageintervalbetween marriage and first birth generally falls between 10 and 12 months, a heaping of births 10-12 months from the marriage season would be expected.
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Variations of infant mortality rates of the populations are also important, because a high rate would reduce theaverageintervalbetween pregnancies and increase the total number of pregnancies.
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Clearly changes in the parity progression ratios will alter the composition of the population and this will greatly affect the weightings used and thus affect theaverageintervalobtained.
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Where no such application for expedition is made, theaverageintervalbetween the issue of the summons and the hearing is five weeks.
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Theaverageintervalbetween expenditure incurred by the applicant and payment of grant is 12 months.
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Theaverageintervalbetween such tours is now about 10 months.
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If my arithmetic is right, that works out at anaverageintervalof 2½ years, and not 3½.
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Theaverageintervalbetween expenditure incurred by the applicant and payment of grant was and still is about 12 months.
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As a result theaverageintervalbetween the submission of a claim and its payment has been reduced to 10 days.
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With extra shipping it has been possible recently to reduce theaverageintervalto about 4½ months.
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Where benefit is awarded, theaverageintervalbetween the date of claim and issue of an order book is 23 days.
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He has talked about theaverageintervalof tours of duty being 24 months.
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