Sentence examples for lags about from inspiring English sources

Their average score on the college admission test lags about 150 points behind the district average of 1130.

Business investment in particular still lags about 1 percentage point behind the pre-crisis average when the size of the economy is taken into account, according to a report released today.

Lola "had a normal sonogram at 18 weeks; at 22 weeks hers started to show some slight lags, about two weeks behind in head measurement, which they told me was still within normal limits," Gwen Hartley said.

Still, the bus is such a fact of life in the Hamptons that Hamptonites swap Jitney stories at cocktail parties when the conversation lags: about catching it, about getting a good seat, about buying "value packs" of discounted tickets in the winter.

Their conclusion: If it had hit Earth, Baker and his colleagues wrote, there was a "very legitimate question of whether our society would still be 'picking up the pieces.'" It's said that space weather science lags about 50 years behind terrestrial weather forecasting.

Additionally, in some successive earthquakes, the eastern and western segments of the Nankai Trough have ruptured separately, with large variations in time lags: about 3 years between the 1099 and 1096 events, 2 years between 1946 and 1944, several days for the 1361 events, and 30 h in the 1854 events.

The Chinese government has lagged about eight years behind the European Union in imposing new emissions standards.

Historically, the real estate market has lagged about a year behind the financial markets.

"Women lag about 10 to 20 years behind men in their smoking patterns," he said.

Because of other limitations, farming was also stunted in the New World, which lagged about five millenniums behind the Middle East.

Regionally, service ratings lag about a point behind those for food, and in Manhattan the difference is more than two points.