In Croydon in outer London, the average income of buyers has hovered around £32,000 since Boris Johnson became mayor in 2008.
In the political world, this was the week of the healthcare ruling: reporters hovered around the supreme court, pundits pundited, politicians "braced" for the ruling, "reeled" in its aftermath.
Guilty delegates hovered between their hunger to solve the future of the cosmos and that for a cheese sandwich.
For trois long jours, I hovered entre sleeping and waking, mais François ignored me totalement.
By 6pm, the grey clouds that had hovered over London for more than an hour parted to disclose a patch of hazy blue sky above Hyde Park and the air filled with the popping of corks and the smell of not-so-cheap burgers.
Even at the age of 10 or 11 I recognised that something strangely morbid hovered over their pages, and that dispersing this chilling miasma might make more sense of the world I was living in.
Aid spending by the world's richest states hovered around an all-time high last year, but development assistance to the least-developed countries (LDCs) fell by 16% from the year before, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OECDD) has said.
Politics has always hovered mutinously off stage in response to Naipaul's work.
Condors hovered above as I descended a near-vertical slope before ascending the other side to some half-deserted 16th-century hamlets accessible only by footpath.
Police helicopters hovered overhead and officers on the ground escorted the crowd but kept a distance, in keeping with police chief Charlie Beck's instructions to let people peacefully protest.
From 1700 until the first world war, the stock of wealth in Western Europe hovered at around 700% of national income.
