Sentence examples for of average income from inspiring English sources

Average English council house rent in 1981 was less than 7% of average income.

Maternity payment, generous to begin with at 90% of average income, drops to £135 a week for 33 weeks.

According to an UNCTAD study, 20 hours of access a month costs $90 in Mexico, equivalent to 15% of average income, compared with only $25 in America, a mere 1% of average income.

The cost of the education that these schools provided, as a proportion of average income, made them the second most expensive on the planet.

Today, GrameenPhone's rural resellers connect 2,800 villages and pocket $2 a day -- equivalent to a large chunk of average income.

"I ranked 10 countries, and Britain came ninth when you look at housing benefit plus unemployment benefit and income support as a percentage of average income".

To meet the targets agreed to by the "troika" of the European Union, European Central Bank and IMF, he wants "enormous" tax increases, including the raising of average income-tax rates by as much as a third.Seldom have protesters, economists and politicians been so united in describing the plans: "brutal", "a crime against the middle class", a "fiscal atomic bomb".

But union claims of average incomes for retired public sector workers are based on a misunderstanding of the information available.

Abdul-Wahhab, 40, lives in East Flatbush, around four miles from Park Slope but a world away in terms of average incomes.

They will be a mix of low-cost rent, shared ownership and "London living rent" which is based on a third of average incomes in each borough.

It may be the second biggest in size, but ranks at 119 in terms of average incomes, according to World Bank data.