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

VOA: special.2009.05.15

Seventy percent of an average turkey is white meat while thirty percent is dark meat.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

Professor Haley says profit for the average Chinese company is less than five percent.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

The study found their hipbone strength decreased by an average of fourteen percent.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

And it is twenty-six percent higher than the ten-year average.

VOA: special.2010.12.07

Export-related jobs,he said, pay fifteen percent more than average.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

"About 85 percent of the average family income is now being used just to buy food to keep a family going."

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

Mr.Obama's approval ratings average just below 50 percent in recent polls, down sharply from this time last year.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

The European Union predicts the German economy, Europe's largest, is likely to contract by 5.4 percent this year, a larger decline than the EU average.

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

Wall Street's Dow Jones Industrial Average was down more than 3 percent in mid-day trading.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

The government has also submitted legislation that would increase the excise tax on beer by an average of 50 percent per year from 2010 to 2012.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

And while Yemen's Central Bank projects economic growth as high as eight percent in 2010, to average Yemenis, the idea that their country's economy is growing is laughable.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

News of the widening trade gap, along with several other gloomy economic reports, contributed to a 2.5 - percent drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

The national average at the moment is heading towards 7 percent."

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

"The cost of solar has been dropping on average about 30 percent a year, where the cost of traditional energies has been going up exponentially because the price of fossil fuels is going up,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Kenneth Feinberg, the Treasury official leading the pay review, says the executives' salaries will be cut by as much as 90 percent, and their average total compensation will drop by about half, starting in November.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22