In Canada,for example, indigenous -- or First Nation people live on average seven fewer years than Canadians of European ancestry.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Patients getting the drug lived on average for ten months compared to six months for those not getting it.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

Supporters of college education point out that students who attend vocational schools will make less money on average.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

On average,students using swear words were able to keep their hand in the water for about two minutes.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

They are the amount a person drinks on average and heavy drinking at one time, called "binge drinking."

VOA: special.2009.09.08

The New York Times newspaper reports that,on average, people experience feelings of loneliness about forty-eight days a year.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

On average,those who were larger around the middle were more likely to have migraines than those of the same age with smaller waistlines.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

On average, each adolescent reported using some kind of media five and one-half hours a day.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

On average, engineering majors expect to start at about sixty-two thousand dollars a year.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

He says the sea floor is, on average, 4,000 meters deep.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

Aboriginal Australians live on average seventeen fewer years than white Australians.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

On average,eight hundred tornadoes are reported nationwide each year.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

"I think it's terrible. It's narcissistic." Yet,people share personal information on the site 70 times per month on average.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

The land surface pokes just a couple of meters on average above sea level, making it the lowest-lying nation in the world.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17