Sentences with phrase «much as the average»

That's about as much as the average Canadian earns in an entire year.

According to a Payscale report, which calculated ratios based on the cash compensation of CEOs at the 100 highest - grossing public companies in the United States in 2013, CVS CEO Larry Merlo has the highest pay compared to his employees: $ 12,112,603 — 422 times as much as the average CVS employee, who earns $ 28,700 per year.

Next lowest is HP's Meg Whitman, whose cash compensation of $ 535,335 in 2013 was just six times as much as the average HP employee's — $ 84,500, followed by Warren Buffett, who earned $ 485,606 in cash in 2013 — nine times more than the pay for Berkshire Hathaway employees, who make, on average, $ 56,900.

Amazon has been mentioned nearly 17 times as much as the average company, according to Street Contxt.

Understanding the climate is a fantastically complicated problem, about which I know only as much as the average scientist, which is to say: not....

According to Piketty and Saez, in 1970 the top 0.01 percent of taxpayers had 0.7 percent of total income - that is, they earned «only» 70 times as much as the average, not enough to buy or maintain a mega-residence.

5 - Hour Energy drinks haven't actually said how much caffeine is in their beverage, but Consumer Reports estimated it about 215 milligrams — about twice as much as your average cup of coffee.

What's more, this very satisfying winter warmer offers a whopping 14 grams of fiber per bowl — more than twice as much as your average bowl of chili!

That's over three times as much as the average $ 11,333 that Latinos earned from outside employment and nearly 13 times as much as the $ 2,733 earned by African - Americans.

That is almost twice as much as the average # 650 spent by other visitors, which may explain why — in spite of the total fall in overall visitor numbers — the economy may not have suffered as much as previously thought.

They were much more willing to accept that the healthy bar would cost twice as much as average.»

What's more, we're eating (well, maybe not us so much as the average Westerner) more seed oils than ever before.

Government reports also say the average workweek has grown from 40 hours in the 1990s to as much as an average of 49 hours currently.

It is quite remarkable, and people who have been raw for longer periods (generally over a year) often do not feel the cold or heat as much as the average person as their body regulates itself more efficiently and naturally.

Prices start at around $ 1000 for a year of service with a professional matchmaker (this depends on the level of service you want), about 3 times as much as the average major dating site for the same time period.

It has a good deal less violence, obscenity and sex than Homer's «Odyssey,» and not nearly as much as the average American folk song.

When it comes to content, Crossroad Crisis has about as much as the average arcade game.

This report shows that by placing an average ability student in the least effective, rather than the most effective classroom environment could affect their academic progress by as much as the average improvement across a year.

Our resentment of company executives making 200 times as much as their average workers is distorting our view of education.

That's about twice as much as average, according to one study of 14 school districts.

Over bumps, it flexes and bends about as much as the average Mercedes - Benz, which is not much.

The biggest USP of the e-reader is perhaps the large size of the screen, which is almost as much as an average magazine page.

In fact, when Tablet S is held in just one hand, one does not get the feeling that this is a 10 - inch device, regardless of the fact that it weighs as much as an average 10 - inch tablet.

That's twice as much as the average, so why not aim for a check of that size?

If the average Chinese person doubles their milk consumption, they'll still only drink about 15 % as much as the average Canadian does.

Since there really aren't any non-shedding canines, pet lovers hoping to lighten their housekeeping load might want to turn to the following dog breeds that do not shed as much as the average pet.

No more anal leakage, no more of that fishy odour, and I would say he licks his booty as much as the average dog now.

The Hilton Honors card offers a generous number of bonus points on hotel and everyday purchases; but because Hilton's Honors aren't worth as much as the average credit card rewards point, cardholders need a larger number of points to purchase rewards - funded travel.

The Wyndham Rewards Visa card offers an above average rewards rate on hotel and general purchases; but Wyndham points aren't worth as much as the average card rewards point, so the hotel card's rewards program isn't as valuable as it seems.

Your mileage may vary, but if you spend as much as an average consumer, you will get almost $ 60 for using Blue Cash Preferred at U.S. gas stations.

Choice points aren't always worth as much as the average card reward point, so be strategic with how you spend them.

What if everyone on earth produced as much as the average American.

Not to mention the sacrifices of their families and friends not getting to see them as much as the average wood duck.

This is in fact part of the central conceit behind climatology: it isn't dealing with the day to day weather so much as the average behavior of the system, but it can do this only because fluctuations and unknown factors often cancel one - another out.

But it's a frame that, left unchecked, could be a source of deepening anger at the West and a sense of victimhood: Why should Indians do anything about climate change when the average American pollutes nearly 20 times as much as the average Indian?

According to Bentek Energy, LLC estimates, natural gas production in West Virginia and Pennsylvania now averages almost 4 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf / d), more than five times as much as the average from 2004 through 2008.

On the spindly peninsula that stretches out toward South America, temperatures have risen rapidly, nearly 5 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 50 years, about 10 times as much as the average temperature rise worldwide.

The potential exists at one particular Arizona mine with 10,000 acres of waste rock and tailings to produce up to 1 gigawatt of combined solar and wind power, about as much as an average coal - fired power plant, said Blair Loftis, national director of alternative and renewable energy for Kleinfelder, a large engineering consultant firm.

This is approximately twice as much as the average precipitation amount for October in the climate standard period 1961 - 1990 (DWD, 2002).

In the end, it was 15 pounds, twice as much as the average birth weight of a child of European heritage.

That's twice as much as an average driver pays in Idaho, the cheapest state for auto insurance.

If you're going to charge two, three or even four times as much as the average laptop, you need to either target a specific niche or provide a near - perfect experience.

According to the BLS, oral and maxillofacial surgeons earned an average wage of $ 104.06 per hour as of 2012, and an average salary of $ 216,440 per year — more than six times as much as the average dental assistant.

The average practitioner drives nearly twice as much as the average American, and the median annual business expense for using a car was $ 1,680 in 2010.

However, once you've splashed out # 18 million for the pad itself, you're still going to have to cough up an annual service charge of # 20,000 — that's almost as much as the average UK salary!

Not exact matches

The Dow Jones industrial average slid more than 2.5 %, or 620 points, while the benchmark S&P 500 dropped as much as 2 %.

«The question was: is it really as much of an above - average business as it needs to be to deserve that multiple?»

As for the market itself, the pullback that has brought major averages into correction territory — 10 percent or more declines — has made valuations much more attractive.

In early regular trading, the Dow Jones industrial average sank as much as 1.1 %, or 257 points, while the S&P 500 lost 0.6 %.

And yet, as painful as such events are, and as much as they seem to increasingly define America's uniquely violent profile among developed nations, they account for just 1 - 2 % of all gun - related deaths in the U.S. «We lose upwards of 90 people a day on average to firearm violence, to suicide and homicide,» says Wintemute.