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Sales of new homes per community in September normally slow by 4% on average compared with August as the buying season winds down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Boats that arrived in the UK from 6 October 2025 to 5 October 2026 carried an average of 68 people.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Since 1950, bull markets that made it that long tended to do well in their fifth year, delivering an average gain of nearly 19%, according to data compiled by Carson Investment Research.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026

It also projected that its larger package of restaurant improvements could generate approximately $100,000 in annual gross cash-flow benefits for an average U.S. restaurant, with most of those gains eventually benefiting the bottom line.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

And with my average brain and average grades I lead a pretty average life.

From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen

State taxes form a "moderate portion" of what consumers pay at the pump, and those reductions have helped reduce prices and national averages, he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Inventories for natural gas and propane are above recent averages.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Participation in Little League, meanwhile, where a four-month season averages between $110 and $170, has dropped more than 30% in the past 20 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

If inflation averages 2% a year over the next 30 years, consumer prices will rise 81%.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Sometimes a reliance on averages can have more serious consequences than misshapen cubes.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Renshaw scored 184 in his fourth Test against Pakistan in January 2017 after being handed a debut aged 20, but averaged 19.41 across 10 Tests before being recalled earlier this year.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The 30-year mortgage rate averaged 8% between 1971 and 2019 and hovered between 7% and 9% during most of the 1990s, when the economy grew 3.4% annually on average.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

While they were only 80 years old, the largest averaged well over a meter in diameter at chest height, and some were more than 1.5m.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

At the time, cars averaged about 13 miles per gallon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Since the start of the journey, they had zigzagged down the curvy river, traveling about sixty miles, which averaged to seven and a half miles a day so far.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

Dollar-cost averaging, for example, can make sense when you’re investing new money and want to reduce the psychological discomfort of investing a lump sum.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

He played in eight postseason games, averaging 1.5 points and shooting 50% from the field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The Englishman did not quite hit top gear against the Dutchman - averaging 85.91 and throwing four 180s - but was clinical at the key moments with a checkout success of 33.33%.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The Patriots offense is averaging the fewest points per possession of any NFL offense over the past decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

With no tent, and often navigating with nothing better than road maps, he walked for 123 days, from April to August, averaging seventeen miles a day.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson