Despite all the complaints, average commuting time remained stable through the 1990s, but the average distance travelled grew.
The maths for working out the average distance to a rat is a bit rough and ready because rodents are not evenly spread.
One change that stands out: He's taking a less aggressive position on his service returns and standing further behind the baseline (the average distance has increased in each of their last three Grand Slam finals).
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In parts of heavily deforested Para state, the average distance timber is carried to sawmills has risen from 17 kilometres to 70 over the past decade, encouraging loggers to move to other areas, says Roberto Smeraldi, of Friends of the Earth.
They followed the fates of seedlings growing around six mature cherries and found that the average distance from the trunk of a recently germinated seed was several metres less than that of seedlings that had managed to establish themselves a few months later.
Among players 30 or older, that's the second-greatest reduction in average shot distance in the NBA over the past five seasons.
He leads the PGA Tour in average driving distance at 313 yards this year, 18 yards longer than Woods.
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John Davis, chief nameplate engineer for Ford's compact cars and utility vehicles, said it's all designed to improve the driving experience: from making the 550-mile trek down Highway 99 from Sacramento to San Diego to the daily 20-mile one-way trip to work - the distance some reports suggest the average American commutes.
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Estimates for this upcoming week are a takedown of another 80 to 100 billion cubic feet which would put the final storage heading into spring only near 1.8 trillion cubic feet, shouting distance from the five year average.
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Average walking distance on the six-minute test improved from 1, 508 feet to 1, 588 feet over the 30-day study period.
As money managers and individual investors become more universally skilled, the distance between the best investor and the average investor shrinks.
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Because RR Lyrae stars have the same average brightness, astronomers use them as standard candle distance indicators.
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He hit nearly two out of three fairways (62.5%, or 35 out of 56) on the ultra-challenging Spanish layout with an impressive driving distance average of 293.4 yards per tee shot.
He led the field in driving distance (tied with Dustin Johnson with an average of 311 yards) and in scrambling (getting up and down in two shots from near the green).
Challenges of time and distance appear to have affected the modern family, with an average of 81.4 miles separating respondents from their parents.
The statistic is computed by calculating the average number of putts a PGA TOUR player is expected to take from every distance, based on ShotLink data from the previous season.
It is designed for high performance, with a high-visibility backlit LCD display providing the runner with critical in-run metrics of time, average and instantaneous pace and distance.
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