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

It can do this between sunrise and noon on a clear day with an average outside temperature of thirty-two degrees Celsius.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

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

VOA: special.2009.09.03

They spent an average of about eight hundred dollars a year on supplies.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

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 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

The onslaught of worrisome news is creating an investor climate similar to a brief panic that erupted on May 6, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged by 1000 points before bouncing back later in the day, according to UBS Financial Services market analyst Art Cashin.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20