Sentence examples for broader average from inspiring English sources

The standard for cars, set in 1985, is an average 27 miles, but the broader average is falling due to the increasing popularity of S.U.V.'s and minivans.

So we're getting the same story as from the broader average of surveys: after an initial burst of enthusiasm for the candidate, more of the voters who begin to weigh in on him or her do so with negative views.

The combined value of all the companies in our index is $1.08 trillion, and the average time from founding to IPO was 8.0 years, compared to a broader average of 11 years for venture-backed companies.

While they preferred average pain to the other terms, they preferred to think about areas of highest importance for them, or to answer based on a broader average.

Among the broader averages, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index was off 17.89 points, or 1.6 percent, at 1,095.31, while the Nasdaq composite index closed 27.29 points, or 1.2 percent, lower at 2,261.80.

All this went on while the broader averages struck out.

While these companies, which were already stressed financially, can hardly be said to drive the Nasdaq, let alone the broader averages, investors who were staying in or even "buying the dips," are now heading out.

In Britain, this process produces a broad average price of £1m ($1.4m) per life.

So the big, broad average for close to 60 years has been an increase of approximately twice as much as we are estimating for the purpose of this calculation".

The report cites rents that are broad averages, leveling the wide variation in locations.

The rent figures are broad averages, which tend to smooth out the wide variation because of location, real estate executives say.