Sentences with phrase «of very average»

They end up experiencing the results they've always experienced — a team of very AVERAGE agents.

Hi Nick what do you think of the very average battery result that GSMARENA got on their review of the U11 +?

She takes you through the life of a very average new college grad, Jessica, and explains the pitfalls in each of the poor financial decisions Jessica makes and the way in which they affect her future.

The earphone is of very average quality, but the 3.5 mm jack means that you can use your own ear phones in case you want.

I'm of a very average built and would like to get more cut and athletic.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star.

he can tun fast in a straight line... does not have clinical finishing or a strikers instinct... Constantly offside even against slow defences... With everyone around us underperforming if we had bought the striking options we needed in summer we would be comfortably ahead of pack by now as it is we are 5 ahead of a very average spurs team

Offside... 1pg League and 1.3 pg in the CL But don't let little things like stats get in the way of wild assumptions based on nothing... 5 ahead of a very average Spurs team!!!!!!! Wow..

u r kidding right... That might happen once wenger leaves but not before... Players are comfortable coz the geriatric laurel and hardy combo just sit there all game trying to remember where they left their Zimmer frames... At one point in his tenure wenger recognized that a skillful midfield was key to quality forward pushing football... The current crop are just a bunch of very average players all of whom could have been playing for WBA

We have a team full of very average players.

She takes you through the life of a very average new college grad, Jessica, and explains the pitfalls in each of the poor financial decisions Jessica makes and the way in which they affect her future.

«We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star,» Hawking once said in an interview.

Not exact matches

«Very thin men, conversely, are punished relative to their average - weight peers, and men are rewarded for gaining weight until the point of obesity,» explain Judge and Cable of their findings.

We can cut down the waste of a person's life to try a medicine just because it was tried on average statistics over a very large number of people.

And don't forget, not only is it very expensive to get into the specialty food market, but you don't get paid right away; you have to make your product in advance and store it with an average of 90 days for the money on your sales [from wholesaling] to come in.

There are more than 140 reviews on Amazon, most of which are very positive with an average of 4.1 out of 5 stars.

By far, the oddest thing about Donald Trump's 1995 tax returns, a portion of which was published by The New York Times on Saturday, is not the massive $ 916 million loss — some 9,385 times as large as what was taken by the average filer who claimed a similar loss — but this: 1995 was actually a very good year for Trump, perhaps one of the best of his career.

The non-partisan Tax Policy Center has analyzed both candidates» tax plans and concluded that Trump's will cut personal taxes for everyone, with the very top earners — more than $ 699,000 a year — seeing average annual tax reductions of about $ 215,000.

The neighbourhood of Britannia was designed from the very beginning to be an upscale community: in 1952, when the average Calgary lot was going for $ 250, building lots in Britannia were sold for up to $ 5,000.

The actual state of knowledge of the impact that the minimum wage has on employment in North America, and especially in Québec, leads to the conclusion that a minimum wage that is greater than 50 % of the average wage is harmful to small wage earners and that a minimum wage that is less than 45 % has very little risk for this group of workers.

Consulting firm Milliman tallies the average costs of different organ transplants in the U.S. And while most are expensive — some are very expensive.

«If you invested in a very low - cost index fund — where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years — you'll do better than 90 percent of people who start investing at the same time,» Buffett said at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.

First, on average, crowdfunding projects, many of which have more to do with one - off artistic or cultural projects than for - profit businesses with growth potential, have raised very modest sums.

The neighbourhood of Britannia was designed from the very beginning to be an upscale community: in 1952, when the average Calgary lot was going for $ 250, building lots in Britannia, which hugs the East bank of the Elbow River, were sold for up to $ 5,000.

During the first part of 2008, this average declined very slowly, but then fell off a cliff in the last couple of months of the year to a low of just over 110,000 vehicles in December.

The cyclical tide is turning once again, so trade in the 1.06 - 1.07 region looks very cheap against a long - term average of 1.22.

A few years ago, Microsoft did some research into this problem and found that people spend on average 5.6 hours each week in meetings, and that 71 percent of American employees reported that these meetings «aren't very productive.»

Retirees are facing problems very similar to the average pension fund: In addition to not having enough cash contributions to keep up with the costs of aging, their returns have been hurt by interest rates that have been too low for too long.

Small business owners noted the cost of doing business is still very reasonable, and the city has a lower - than - average cost of living.

The longtime investor added that since 1970, the very long - term average of inflation is 1.9 percent, but that the average is biased upward by war - time inflation spikes, implying that a better target maybe be significantly lower.

The longtime investor added that since 1970, the very long - term average of inflation is 1.9 percent, but that the average is biased upward by war - time inflation spikes.

Americans who rate themselves as «very happy» volunteer an average of 5.8 hours per month, compared with those who describe themselves as «unhappy» and log only about 0.6 hours.

And when it does slip under this trend line, it doesn't stay below it for very long — just an average of 10 days.

I have no debts whatsoever, plenty of cash savings, a very healthy retirement portfolio, a nice home all paid for, a good pension plus above average social security payments, so I am able to travel widely and stay in high end hotels.

Only 35 percent of HR professionals rated their organization's bench strength — the supply to fill critical leadership positions over the next three years — at any level of strength (slightly strong, strong, or very strong) and, on average, only 43 percent of positions could be filled by an internal candidate immediately.

Using an average figure may make a franchise system look more successful than it really is, because the high incomes of just a few very successful franchises can inflate the average for all franchisees.

It is a manual about getting money from those who have it and are, given reason and their interests met, very willing to spend it — on just about everything, and more of it, at higher average prices than any other consumers.

With India having imported a phenomenal 525 metric tons in the first half of 2017 alone, Teves writes that «we expect gold demand in India this year to be around historic averages,» which would be very supportive for prices.

If a franchisor claims that its franchisees earn an average income of $ 75,000 a year, that tells you very little about how individual franchises performed.

Any single person who is meeting these targets is doing very well, and far above average compared to the rest of the US in my opinion.

For gauging price momentum in the very short - term (a period of several days), we have found the 5 and 10 - day moving averages work very well.

CVX's debt - to - equity ratio is very low at 0.21 and is currently below that of the industry average, implying that there has been very successful management of debt levels.

Ideally, we were prepared to enter a short position if $ GLD bounced into key resistance of its 50 - day moving average, which would have provided us with a low - risk entry point with a very positive reward - risk ratio.

Survey measures of business confidence have lifted from the very low levels seen at the beginning of the year to be close to their long - run average.

There's a good reason we do so: The median wage actually shows the experience of workers in the middle of the distribution, whereas average wages are distorted by super-salaries paid at the very top of the income spectrum.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

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Though we don't use the Coppock indicator in its popular form, the 29 signals in this measure since 1900 have been associated, on average, with market returns of 19.6 % over the following year, and only 3 yearly losses among those signals (one because of the entry into World War II, and the others because the signals were driven by the reversal of a very weakly negative reading, as was the case for the latest signal).

In Dallas, the average cost of renters insurance fluctuates very little between neighborhoods.

To conclude, over the past decade and in a very volatile world, Australia has achieved the inflation target, avoided a major economic downturn, seen remarkably little variability in real economic activity in the face of enormous shocks, experienced a fairly low average rate of unemployment, and had a stable financial system as well.