Despite the recent gains, average house prices in most countries are barely higher than a year ago.

尽管最近反弹，大多数国家的平均房屋价格几乎不会超过去年。

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Nevertheless, income per head in the northern triangle, plus Nicaragua, rose by 1.6% a year between 1995 and 2009, barely above the Latin American average of 1.5%.

虽然如此，在1995年到2009年期间，“北方三角”和尼加拉瓜地区人均收入每年增长1.6%，略高于拉丁美洲平均1.5%的增长率。

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But the other half of the equation is Russia's plummeting birth rate, which in the past two decades has fallen from an average of two children per woman to barely more than one.

但另一半原因是俄罗斯直线下降的人口出生率，过去二十年中出生率由平均每个妇女有两个孩子降低到平均一个多一点。

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(Speaking) At present, the average price of gasoline in the United States is well below Leonhardt's barely-competitive threshold of about 75-cents per liter.

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You can choose to hire 2 quality employees at a slightly higher rate and 10 barely average employees at a lower rate and hope that the skills of the two quality persons rub off on the others.

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In other words, the '87 Twins were a barely above average team.

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But among the 105 teams that have won the Fall Classic, some were just barely above average performers in the regular season that benefitted from a well-timed hot streak, playing in a weak division or an opponent's collapse.

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