Sentence examples for approaching an average from inspiring English sources

With gas prices nationwide approaching an average of $4 a gallon, energy has taken a position at the forefront of the presidential campaign.

One of the problems here is that the cost of building a great company has increased – approaching an average of $200 million for the typical $1 billion valuation business.

And according to official Pentagon figures, the U.S.-led aerial bombing in Iraq has topped 4,500 airstrikes in the last year -- approaching an average rate of 100 per week.

The reported incidence is only now approaching an average 100/100,000 people, which is likely what the true incidence has been.

The A. brunnescens and V. volvacea assemblies are both approaching an average copy number of 2. Thus, the relatively larger assembly size for these species may be explained by heterozygosity in these diploid fungi, and the assembly of different alleles onto different contigs, rather than by extensive genome expansion.

The Ba concentration in PV07 shows a distinct peak of 406 µmol/L after 90 min before it approaches an average concentration of 375 µmol/L, resulting in a total Ba concentration loss of approx. 75%.

Perhaps because they seemed to be saying that as the 1990s approached, an average working stiff's pursuit of the American Dream had become a crude joke.

For alignment slices with more than 6 sequences, rnazWindows.pl selects a representative subset consisting of the D. melanogaster sequence and five additional sequences in such a way that 6 sequences are as evenly distributed in the dataset as possible and approach an average pairwise sequence identity of 80%, the optimal working range of the RNAz program.

Any good statistician knows that the only way to approach a useful average or spot a real trend is to gather data from as broad a set as possible.

People who belong to them report levels of "thriving" – a state where they experience a sense of vitality and learning – that approach an average of six on a seven-point scale.

Using an area-based approach, an average accuracy of 89.1 % (κ  =  0.78) of predicting the dominant species was reported.