But health costs are increasing at an average of about six percent a year -- far ahead of inflation.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

On average, rhesus monkeys live about twenty-seven years in captivity, that is,when they live with humans and not in the wild.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

A study published in Stroke last year involved about two thousand people with an average age of sixty-two.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Malaria kills about two hundred thousand children in Africa every year, an average of one every thirty seconds.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

The New York Times newspaper reports that,on average, people experience feelings of loneliness about forty-eight days a year.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

But it represents a loss of about five hundred ninety thousand kilometers from the yearly average between nineteen seventy-nine and two thousand.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

On average,students using swear words were able to keep their hand in the water for about two minutes.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

Professor Murray says the average farm in Haiti measures about one or one and a half hectares.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

The scientists say the average Arctic sea ice extent last month was about five million square kilometers.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

The average published price for undergraduate study at a four-year public college was about seven thousand dollars.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

Mister Rehm says the average person around the world has about twelve alcoholic drinks a week.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

"The average person who uses a computer or an electronic device blinks about a third as much as we normally do in everyday life.

VOA: special.2011.08.01

It says girls between the ages of three and six own an average of about twelve.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

The College Board says the average tuition at a private college was about twenty-six thousand dollars.

VOA: special.2010.04.08