The phrase "average sentence length" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing writing style, readability, or analyzing text.
Example: "In my essay, I aimed for an average sentence length of 15 words to enhance clarity and flow."
Alternatives: "mean sentence length" or "typical sentence length."
The average sentence length rose from 156 days to 221.
Consider in your comparison the following features: key information, vocabulary, average sentence length, examples, metaphors, etc".
There would be little lost by halving the average sentence length for easy-to-replace functionaries within the drug distribution system (lookouts, typical retail sellers, hired hands, etc).
This is four times the average sentence length of 3.7 months handed down by the courts for similar offences in 2010.
Tacking a month onto the average sentence length adds around 1,800 to the prison population.Overcrowding could have been lessened by building more prisons.
As Louisiana's sentencing laws have grown ever stricter, Angola has become less of a way station and more of a terminal; 16 years ago, the average sentence length here was half of what it is now.
In the UK the average sentence lengths for sexual assault are four months and for theft two and a half months, but there are also numerous individual examples of harsher sentencing for theft, such as during the London Riots, when people received considerably longer sentences.
Whatever the reason, the effect has been an increase in average sentence lengths, more offenders being jailed for life or indeterminate terms and tougher release conditions, so that prisoners are more likely to be sent back to custody for breaches.
The average sentence-length in Bryan's speech was 104 words; the average sentence-length in George W. Bush's 2000 acceptance speech was less than 15 words.
The mean sentence length for the 110 sentenced participants was 18.2 months (SD=11).
The figures show that the average custodial sentence length (ACSL) for all indictable offences was consistently higher for men than for women between 2007-2011.
