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"For owners, it's a huge cost saving – physical staging can cost anywhere from £5,000 on average up to £50,000 just to show a property with furniture in," he told the BBC.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
He missed all last season attending a continuation school as he tried to improve a grade-point average that he said was once below 1.0.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
October’s employment growth was driven by an increase of 70,000 professional and business-services jobs—well above the average monthly gain of 15,000 over the previous 12 months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
After closing Thursday around 7,354, the index sits just above its 200-day moving average, a widely watched measure of the market’s longer-term trend, at 7,323.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
The parents of a child provided, on average, half the content of that feature; the grandparents, a quarter; the great-grandparents, an eighth—and so forth, all the way back to the most distant ancestor.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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He had 10 points in the first quarter, a slow start for him considering he averages 15 points per game in the first 12 minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Taken as an aggregate, polling averages and not individual surveys can provide a more accurate prediction.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
Spending per person averages are well above its casual-dining peers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The organization updates its out-of-pocket cost averages every five years.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Enrique’s train runs only a few times a week, but it averages three derailments a month—seventeen accidents in a particularly bad month—by the count of Jorge Reinoso, chief of operations for Ferrocarriles Chiapas-Mayab, the railroad.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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No one has averaged 40 points over a season since the legendary center in 1963.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
Up until the start of 2025, Bavuma averaged 46.85 against spin but since then his record drops to 21.37.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Exports averaged 15.7 million barrels a day in the week through Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
At ExxonMobil, oil prices averaged around $85 per barrel during the period, about a third more than in the 2025 quarter.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Terrell averaged twenty-three points a game last year, and I racked up many assists by feeding him.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
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It might be that the game has evolved to become more grueling, that teams are averaging more possessions per game, that possessions are shorter and that defenders are picking up ball-handlers sooner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
The war has lasted for 9 months, and led to oil prices used in the forecast averaging $108 a barrel.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
"Once operational, the facilities are projected to sustain more than 9,000 local jobs per year, with wages averaging 45 percent above the national median," it added.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
Westbrook put up phenomenal individual numbers, averaging a triple-double, but the Thunder limped to a first-round playoff exit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 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
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