The average excess returns were -9.6% and 6.2%, respectively, according to Tortoriello.

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But Strauss, named England's man of the series after scoring 317 runs at an average in excess of 63, added that such a mentally taxing series could be good preparation for the winter's Ashes tour of Australia.

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Consumption has since risen fivefold, with the average American now wolfing down in excess of 3 pounds a year.

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In 2004 gold shot up well above its 12-year average, thus screaming that the Federal Reserve was creating excess liquidity.

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Our central bank has neither prevented nor even predicted this prolonged period of excess inflation, which has so devalued the average pay packet.

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It is precisely because early VC funds make those excess profits that current VC funds make less than average market profits.

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His average annual return since February 2001, according to Marketocracy.com is in excess of 30%.

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In fact, Ex-Im Bank has actually returned an average of nearly a billion dollars each year since fiscal 2008 to the Treasury, representing income in excess of operating expenses, so it really is self-sustaining.

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