Sentence examples for down the mean from inspiring English sources

Most of us weren't shamed by our immigrant parents or chased in fear of our lives down the mean streets.

Chinatown was the key work that launched neo-noir, its superb script by Robert Towne bringing back the Chandleresque world where chivalrous private eyes like Philip Marlowe went down the mean streets of Los Angeles.

Published in 1953, The Long Good-bye was arguably Chandler's best, certainly his most personal novel and turned upon his knight-errant private eye Philip Marlowe going down the mean streets of Los Angeles to defend the reputation of his friend Terry Lennox, who's accused of murdering his wife before apparently committing suicide in Mexico.

A super-intelligent android and a human partner are dispatched by state security to investigate a series of murders committed by rogue sex dolls known as gynoids, and it's an exciting, occasionally opaque, journey they take down the mean streets of physical reality and hyper-reality.

When Eli Wallach strolled down the mean streets of Manhattan, the tune followed him everywhere.

Drilling down, the mean wage for the 21,550 chief executives at "management of companies and enterprises" was $216,100.

They SWAT you, they hack you, they shut down the means of communication through denial of service attacks.

Obviously, Lloyds TSB did both of those things, but that was probably down to the mean old Lloyds side.

The index to compute then just boils down to the mean difference for a genotype between a control and stressed environment.

Mean values for HNP1 3, hBD3 and LL37 were 0.94, 0.73, 3.36 μg/ml, respectively, with the range extending 10-fold up and down from the mean.

Test results are considered valid only when the titre of these reference sera did not deviate more than one dilution step up or down from the mean.