Sentence examples for average for the past from inspiring English sources

Does anyone know an investment compounding 20% each year on average for the past 5 years and 12.54% for the past 10 years?

The latter figure is pretty close to the average for the past thirty years.

Nonetheless, corporate spending as a share of GDP is still well below its average for the past 25 years.

The agency said this year's global average surface temperature was expected to be 0.96 degrees Fahrenheit above the average for the past 40 years, which is 57 degrees.

In neighbouring Victoria, major fires that naturally occur every 75 to 120 years have occurred every 20 years, on average, for the past century.

American output would still be about one-quarter of the world total, the average for the past 125 years, as Zakaria reminds us.

William H. Miller III, whose Legg Mason Value Trust has beaten the broad market averages for the past 12 straight years, believes the Federal Reserve's promise this week to "print money" "took the deflation risk out of the market" and creates the climate for a more positive stock market in 2003.

10. Lions: Justin Gilbert (CB, Oklahoma State) 2013 Stats: 11 games, 42 tackles, 7 INT, 2 defensive TD Defensively, the Lions have been below-average for the past couple seasons.

In light of the steady escalation of salaries, Selig said he was not surprised that the average salary for the past season was $1,789,556, an increase of more than 13.8percentt over the 1999 average of $1,572,329.

That isn't too bad, but it's a bit lower than the average figure for the past twelve months, which is a hundred and ninety thousand.

And the ONS data also reveals that inflation has outstripped the rise in average pay for the past 12 years.