On an average day,it says, almost twenty-seven thousand doctors, nurses and others work in teams of local and foreign aid workers.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

They are the amount a person drinks on average and heavy drinking at one time, called "binge drinking."

VOA: special.2009.09.08

On an average day, nearly everyone fifteen years of age and older took part in a non-work activity like watching television, socializing or exercising.

VOA: special.2011.07.22

On average, each adolescent reported using some kind of media five and one-half hours a day.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

It uses average yearly data in its computations, and focuses on only two major pollutants - nitrogen and phosphorous.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

In an area where manufacturing jobs have disappeared and the unemployment rate has risen above the national average, Mr.Obama called on Congress to pass a new job-creation bill.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

The study also says American children eat an average of three snacks a day on top of three regular meals, and the snacks account for almost one third of their daily calories.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

The agency report called for the need to adapt to an increase in more intense hurricanes in the Caribbean, above-average warming impact on glacier-dependent river flows in Central Asia,and droughts affecting fragile economies in North Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

"If senators refuse to debate about a profound crisis affecting every single citizen, the nation must ask 'What do you fear?' ,'And whose voice do you speak and whose interest do you vote?" Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky disagreed, saying the bill will make soaring health care costs go even higher, and place a greater burden on average Americans.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23