The average college student in America spent an estimated seven hundred dollars on textbooks last year.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

There's no ladder, no differences between CEO and an average engineer on the surface.

没有阶级划分,表面上看来，普通员工和CEO也没有差别。

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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

The study included data on about half of all Andean glaciers and blamed the melting on an average temperature rise of 0.7C from 1950-1994.

BBC: Massive melting of Andes glaciers

Both studies missed their main goal, but the more recent one--a three-year, 124-patient study--shows that patients on the drug lived, on average, an extra four months.

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Even Valdez, the pretty salmon-fishing town on Prince William Sound at the foot of the mountains, receives an average of eight feet of snow on its rooftops each winter.

BBC: Journey into the Alaskan wild