• Trip the security system on your average American house, and you'll likely set an alarm whining, cause lights to flip on and possibly trigger a notification to the security company or local police station.

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  • By helping people find cabs, Flywheel increases the usage of the cabs on it system by an average of 20%.

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  • The Building Research Establishment says if builders were forced to achieve the "excellent" grading on its rating system, it would put around 1% on the cost of the average home.

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  • It is feared any potential benefits from the extra boost of 80bhp for up to six seconds each lap will initially be negated by the system's weight (on average 35kg) and its knock-on effect on balance, weight distribution and reliability, not to mention the cost and anxiety over its safety.

    BBC: F1 teams face testing times

  • The latest figures from the ONS show that, on average, the bottom 60% of UK households by income get more out of the system in benefits, tax credits and public services than they put back in the form of taxes in 2010-11.

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  • The train frequently finished at the bottom of passenger satisfaction surveys by the nonprofit Straphangers Campaign, and is among the worst performers in the entire subway system on a chief measure of reliability: how many miles the cars can travel, on average, between breakdowns.

    WSJ: MTA Moving to Phase Out the C Line's Clunkers

  • And a back-of-the-envelope calculation based on the 1.8m sorts of organism recognised so far as species under the Linnaean system, on the rate at which new species are being discovered and on such ecological matters as the average number of parasites (themselves new species) that each free-living species harbours, suggests the final total may be around 30m.

    ECONOMIST: Biodiversity

  • However, in order to take advantage of the sharp increase in iron ore prices in the past few years, miners decided to move to a quarterly contract system, whereby the contracts would be priced based on the average price in the preceding quarter.

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  • The system is complex: Each gene is thought to produce, on average, five separate substances, mostly proteins, and these products interact with each other.

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  • The cab industry is, in fact, far more technologically advanced that your average local transit system, limousine industry, or any other industry sector carrying people on the streets of San Fran.

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  • More lone parents call London home than anywhere else in the UK, and because of changes to the welfare system, they can expect to lose a month's worth of income on average by 2015.

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  • Confindustria is pressing the government for more reform of the unsustainable pension system (Italy spends 13% of GDP on the elderly, almost four percentage points more than the average for the EU 15 richer economies).

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