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Tireless in his running, his confidence is sky high; he averages 3.2 shots and 1.2 dribbles per game, and he has won possession in the attacking third of the pitch 18 times this season, the fifth most in the Premier League.
There is no law of averages for the serious gambler.
You get a better understanding of the difference if you look past averages and examine the actual number of shared ownership homes being bought in different income brackets.
The idea popularised by the Tory tabloids, that average public sector wages (not the plump cats whose pay Brown froze today) now run ahead of the private sector, fails to explain that its pool of unskilled workers pulls private sector averages down.
Where Clinton is, according to polling averages , is about 50 points out in front of the field in the primary race.
And if even that doesn't offer comfort, I can only leave you with my own preference: that the untried Malik is brought in at No4 for the Ashes, during which he averages 105.
In the eight games Morgan has captained England he averages 71 and his only contribution of note in Sri Lanka before Christmas was the 62 runs he scored in the fourth ODI in Colombo, when Cook was suspended for slow over-rate offences.
Ask any county player and they would be hard pushed to say that Mark Ramprakash was not, by a distance, the most technically accomplished county batsman of the past two decades (who averages 42.4 against Australia, a figure that would have been significantly higher if there had been a lower order that could bat more than their eyelids).
The averages , which will affect each country's overall ranking, are based on a simple mean of each country's estimates, regardless of its size or how many children participated.
The Dublin-born batsman's own form – he averages 16 over the past 12 months – has been so poor of late that he joked the spate of missed calls he received from England's selectors to inform him of his promotion might instead have been to tell him he was out of the squad.
What one can say is her instincts will be aggressive ones Public opinion did not turn against the Obama administration's foreign policy, according to polling averages , until the summer of 2013 – months after Clinton had left the administration.
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The primary grammatical function of "averages" is as a noun , often used to refer to a set of values representing central tendencies in data. As Ludwig AI confirm, the word is correct and usable in written English.
Expression frequency: Very common
