"sooner than average" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that happens earlier than the expected or usual time. Example: "The project was completed sooner than average, thanks to the team's efficiency and dedication." In this sentence, "sooner than average" is used to describe the project being finished earlier than the usual or expected time frame.
It's believed to rupture every 7,000 to 8,000 years on average, but it's possible the earthquake could arrive much sooner than the average.
The smaller gap means its mortgage assets will be repaid and replaced at a lower interest rate 10 months sooner, on average, than its $780 billion in outstanding debt.
Dr. Coren said the records showed that from the time statistics were kept, players who were consistently left-handed died sooner on average than their right-handed counterparts.
Those who had been given rooms overlooking a small stand of deciduous trees were being discharged almost a day sooner, on average, than those in otherwise identical rooms whose windows faced a wall.
A report in tomorrow's Lancet suggests that, once HIV infection progresses to AIDS, patients with a mutated copy of the gene for what's called the CCR5 receptor die 6 months sooner, on average, than those with good copies.
Infants born to both smoking parents were born 0.58 weeks sooner, on average, than those born to nonsmoking parents (p = 0.006).
In particular, New York males (EM464) were superior to the other two strains when forced to compete directly via sperm competition (Fig. 2), and females mated to New York males died much sooner on average than females mated with males from the other two strains (Fig. 4).
"California won't rebound sooner, but growth rates look stronger than average," says Chen.
The measure would allow companies to assume that their blue-collar workers will on average die sooner than pension plans now assume they will.
Among AIDS victims, those with the pneumonia have on average died much sooner than those with, for example, Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer that has appeared in 14percentt of AIDS patients.
