Sentence examples for half average from inspiring English sources

Ministers who purport to be fighting poverty looked decidedly shifty when asked to justify the introduction of a means test that will reduce the £66.75 a week incapacity benefit (IB) for people who have an occupational pension which still leaves them below the poverty line (defined as half average income).

(Some of you may be crying foul here; how can the top half average 10.1 when none of the top three quintiles are as high? The reason is that only part of the 3rd quintile is in the top half of the distribution.

The most cited, by both academics and politicians, is the number of people living on less than half average income.

Under the new proposal a disabled person starts losing their weekly £66.75 IB when their annual income (IB plus pension or insurance) reaches £7,943, which is below even the poverty line of £8,216 (half average income).

And far more Britons are poor, on this definition, than in 1979: then, only 9% of households and 10% of children lived on less than half average incomes.In this section Good neighbours Smothering the euro debate New treatment needed Labour's crusade Archer's aim Kennedy Democrats Second thoughts A hundred years of failure?

We set half average currents as open threshold, used a long recording trace of 15 s or a group of multiple traces more than 15 s, and calculated the open probability of L- and D-type M2 channels in planar lipid bilayers.

The big ones occur Friday on a stage from Brescia to Aprica, which includes the 12-kilometer Passo del Mortirolo, whose middle half averages a 12.3 percent grade.

Last season Man Utd had the lowest second-half average added time.

Brent crude oil prices averaged $55 a barrel in the first quarter of 2015 - almost half the average price a year ago.

More than half its average annual rainfall fell on Tuesday.

That sum is approaching half the average £162,000 house price in England and Wales.