This is significant because men, on average, tend to spend upwards of 35% more per month on home improvement supplies than females.
Even if Chinese car sales went down in April, there are still millions more cars being introduced into service than withdrawn from service, because the average car on the road is so young.
That the declines were much smaller on average was because the effects of the appreciation were offset by demand-boosting fiscal, monetary and structural policies.
Analysts are more upbeat on companies in the Euro Stoxx 50, compared with the broader Stoxx Europe 600 index, because their bigger market capitalizations on average mean more exposure outside Europe.
And just because many studies show that on average online and blended learning work better than does face-to-face learning, this does not mean that just because a program is online that it will be good.
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"Ingredient costs have undergone significant increases in the last six months and some businesses are struggling to pass those increases on because spending power of the average household hasn't increased by the same proportion, " she told BBC News.
And so the American people have an extra thousand dollars, on average, in their pockets because of the tax cuts that we initiated.
YCharts Pro gives Aruba an average rating on fundamentals mainly because the company is a little too young to show the track record required of a higher rating.
The client was particularly nervous about taking that chance on his essay because his college grade point average (GPA) was only 3.0--not what's needed to get into a top business school.
Because of the pampering, Niman Ranch charges chefs on average 20% more for its cuts of meat than its largest competitors.
On average, five people get educated because if you educate one girl, then she will educate at least four other people through the course of her life.
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The limousines and hearses scrape on the humps because they are longer and heavier than the average family car.
Because it can index SWIFT payments, Splunk can provide reports on average messages sent per day, number cleared, and the number of failures, along with information on total cot of commission for payments and top institutional customers.
Larry points out that the average interest rate on government bonds is artificially low because of the recession.
The average speed of rail freight on this route, because of hold-ups at frontiers, customs inspections and the like, is barely 9mph.
We pay, on average, far more than we should for electricity because utility commissions generally ignore Ramsey, or stand him on his head.
According to Judah Kraushaar, an analyst with Merrill Lynch, it now loses money on almost half of its retail customers, in part because the average customer buys relatively few products.
Because its forms are putting on weight faster than a male contestant on Average Joe, the Internal Revenue Service has ditched a helpful worksheet to figure out loss carryover that was in the Schedule D instructions.
Labour seats have, on average, 6, 000 fewer electors than Tory ones because of the long-term drift of population from the cities to the shire counties and the leafy suburbs.
Mr. Ewing said there were no planned migrations for the SAT to a computerized format because it would be impossible to accommodate the average 3 million test takers on any given test date.
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Overall, women employees earned on average only 83% as much as men did, because women tended to hold positions at the low end of the pay scale, while men were disproportionately represented at the upper end.
DaimlerChrysler 's (nyse: DCX - news - people ) domestic operations made piles of money in the mid-1990s despite below-average quality, because Dodge and Chrysler minivans were the cleverest on the road, and Jeep's SUVs were the coolest.
Transactions on average take longer in Britain than in most other countries because a buyer can pull out at the last minute, and gazumping (where a vendor who has agreed to a sale accepts a higher offer from someone else) is common.
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She said the stout rally silver had on Thursday was in part because the metal rose above its 200-day moving average, triggering resting buy orders.
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Add in the fact that share prices are still 30% higher, on average, than in August 1998, helping to fuel domestic spending because consumers feel so much wealthier, and overall financial conditions are looser today than they were in 1998, despite the economy's annual average growth since then of 4%.
On average, infants stay at the hospital for about four weeks' time because they have to be watched so closely.
The review ranked him "average" for the operational phase of projects because "once the factories turn on, I get bored, " Mr. Bull remembers.
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Coach also gets high marks from my Lynch-inspired strategy, in part because of its solid 17.1% long-term EPS growth rate (based on an average of the three-, four-, and five-year growth rates).
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While the dieters lost about 1 pound on average, none of them maintained the diet after the two weeks was up because they didn't meet their unrealistic expectations of losing 5 to 10 pounds.
The fact that your husband does not appear to have the same condition as his mother is also encouraging, because your child will inherit his or her genes directly from your husband, who himself received on average only half his genes from his mom.
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