The phrase "below average height" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to describe someone or something that is shorter than the average height of a group. For example: "The 6-month-old baby was below average height for his age."
He appears to be slightly below average height so that seems a little harsh.
By "short" Schwartz means those considerably below average height (5-foot-9 for American men and 5-foot-4 for women).
When he first took power, an old schoolteacher of his in St . Petersburg Vera Malishkina, remembered her former pupil, who is below average height, as a superb basketball player because he was "very tall".
In common with most of the north-of-England working class, we were a good few inches below average height, like a herd of extras from 'The Wizard of Oz.' " But as you can see, the book also contains enormous sadness, and whether accidentally or deliberately, Eagleton allows this sadness to hobble him.
A little below average height; a receding hairline.
When she decides to apply for admission to the Tokyo Space Academy, her teachers urge her to reconsider because she is below average height.
In 2003, for example, the Food and Drug Administration granted approval to Eli Lilly to market human growth hormone for "idiopathic short stature," or below-average height in children — to make them taller, purely for social reasons.
Among both women and men, self-reports of height exhibit significant social desirability bias only among those of below-average height, and very few individuals underreport their height.
Picture an NFL quarterback who, at a mere 6 feet tall, stood 2 inches below the average height for his position and 3 to 4 inches below what is considered the perfect height.
"For every inch that you're below the average height, you lose 2% of your income".
JIANG TAO, who is below the average height for a Chinese man, has brought a case against a branch of China's central bank for discriminating against job applicants who are on the short side.
