average

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For most areas temperatures are set to stay around the January average for the rest of the week, then will fall below average over the weekend and throughout the final week of January.

From BBC

"Dark matter forms relatively diffuse clumps which are still much denser than the average density of the universe," says Gurian, a Perimeter postdoctoral fellow and co-author of the study.

From Science Daily

However, the trimmed mean and weighted median measures of underlying inflation preferred by the Bank of Canada cooled to the slowest in a year, averaging 2.6% annually compared with 2.85% in November.

From The Wall Street Journal

She said, at the same time, teachers with permanent positions were so overworked they were having to work on average a "day-and-a-half extra unpaid".

From BBC

Brown said the fixed cameras meant deployments were "more efficient" than using the mobile vans, as the camera feeds could be monitored remotely, and that arrests were being made on average once every 34 minutes.

From BBC