• All three men are described as white, in their 20s, of average height and had scarves covering their faces.

    BBC: Man abducted from Edinburgh street by gang

  • The staff are of average height and seldom sing.

    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

  • The survey, called Shape GB and carried out by Select Research, suggests that two current beliefs prevalent among retailers are wrong: that boys' and girls' body shapes do not differ significantly before the age of seven, and that the average height of five-year-old boys is 110cm when it is actually 115cm.

    BBC: Children 'have wider waists now than in 1978'

  • After the introduction of agriculture the average height in Europe dropped by four inches.

    ECONOMIST: Fundamental questions

  • Mean sea level: average height of the sea surface over a 19-year period.

    UNESCO: L O S S A R Y

  • With an average height of 6-foot-3, the team's starting back line is the tallest to take the field in the Six Nations during the modern era.

    WSJ: Wales Unleashes Its Behemoths

  • All of the 96 women I interacted with listed their height as between 5-foot-1 and 5-foot-3, even though the average height of an American woman is 5-foot-4.

    WSJ: Hacking the Hyperlinked Heart

  • When someone is in a wheelchair his head is at the height of an average person's waist.

    ECONOMIST: Monitor

  • The report published on Tuesday - part-funded by the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) - looked more at changes in the average weight and height of passengers in the past few decades than the highly-publicised fears over so-called "traveller's thrombosis".

    BBC: Civil Aviation Authority report

  • Consider, for example, the decades of production of a human growth hormone for below-average-height children by the National Pituitary Agency.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Since the height of the market five years ago the average price of terraced properties has fallen by 27%, with flats down 23%.

    BBC: Detached house values 'up ?100,000' over past decade

  • Current U.S. spending of 3.8% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on defense programs is astonishingly lower than the 38% spent at the close of WWII, the 11.7% spent during the Korean War, the 9.8% spent at the height of the Vietnam War, or the average of 5.2% spent during the last decade of the Cold War.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Army and its Future Combat Systems in Jeopardy

  • In 1993, at the height of the emerging-markets boom, share prices jumped by an average of 75% during the year.

    ECONOMIST: Home, sweet home?

  • If you refer again to standard growth charts, you'll find that height increases typically slow down significantly after about age 14, with an average increase of only 1 inch before ultimately stopping by about 20 years.

    CNN: What can I do to grow taller?

$firstVoiceSent
- 来自原声例句
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定