Sentence examples for higher than average rate from inspiring English sources

Until now, across the world, the accident rate in construction projects is higher than average rate in other industries.

Women have a higher than average rate of hospital admissions for depression during this period and for as long as three years after childbirth.

It concluded that the professional consensus on contested cases in Cleveland was that the doctors were right in about 70% - a higher than average rate of accuracy on first diagnoses.

But the priests, too, began dying possibly at a higher than average rate, because of their frequent exposure to the sick and so, in certain dioceses, laypeople were given the authority to administer the last rites.

In that group, investigators found a higher than average rate of clinically significant behavior problems (chiefly hyperactivity and distractibility) after five years if and only if their mothers suffered from postpartum depression.

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Richmond's poverty rate is double the average in Contra Costa County, and the city's residents have the county's highest death rate from diabetes, a higher-than-average rate of children with serious asthma, and the second-highest rates for hospitalizations resulting from mental illness and drug abuse.

They also point to high-profile investors such as the endowment for Yale University, which enjoyed "a higher-than-average rate of return on its endowment through its alternative investment strategies, including hedge funds," according to a recent article by Kristin Jones in the Wall Street Journal.

The average rate of smoking in the populations across all 34 OECD nations is 19.7%, but 22 countries have a higher-than-average rate.

Much the same sort of thing has been happening recently in several other countries which lie on the fringe of the successful French-German heartland of the European community and which have a higher-than-average rate of inflation: countries, in short, which face particularly difficult decisions about their national identity and the management of their economies.

Even when brought to trial, those charged with rape have a higher-than-average rate of acquittal, mainly because it is difficult to prove a crime for which there are usually no third-party witnesses and because the testimony of women often may be given less credence than that of men.