Sentence examples for a European average from inspiring English sources

That's a European average of 80.9% of GDP.

She says 12percentt of board members of Italian companies are foreign, compared with a European average of 20percentt.

The proportion of those prisoners is also higher in Britain at 10% compared with a European average of 3%.

Almost a third of the Basque country's economy is made up of manufacturing – compared to a European average of 20%.

Fully 62% think immigrants make it harder for natives to get jobs, compared with a European average of 45%.

Parents in the UK spend an average of 27% of their salary on childcare, compared with a European average of 13%.

On Thursday, the committee voted in favor of sticking to proposals mandating that the average new car should emit an average of 130 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer by 2012, compared with a current European average of 158 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer.

Davy Stockbrokers, a Bank of Ireland subsidiary, found that Irish banks get an average return on equity of 22.2percentt, compared with a 16.4 percent European average.

More than half of those farms cover less than 12 acres, about a quarter of the European average, according to Andrzej Zedura, a government official.

For the last two indicators we compared countries with an ad hoc European average based on 13 countries (E13: Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Republic of Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom).

It noted that per capita alcohol consumption is about 1.5 liters a year — a mere fraction of the European average.