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Ahead of the speech, the paper highlights ongoing questions around reforming the triple lock, under which pensions rise each year by the highest of inflation, average earnings or 2.5%.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The EU can also impose periodic penalty payments of up to 5% of average daily sales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Boats that arrived in the UK from 28 September 2025 to 27 September 2026 carried an average of 67 people.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Summit said Monday that AstraZeneca will buy $2 billion of convertible preferred shares, representing a common stock price of $18.36 a share, a 10% premium to the stocks’ five-day volume-weighted average price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
It sounds terrifying, but the odds of the average person encountering that kind of radiation are minuscule.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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If inflation averages 2% a year over the next 30 years, consumer prices will rise 81%.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Tarlov, 42, has been a sturdy liberal counterweight at “The Five,” which averages 3.5 million viewers daily, according to Nielsen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The CEO’s compensation targets include a $25 million bonus if PayPal’s stock price averages above $68 for 60 days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The Environment Agency predicts that if rainfall averages through the autumn and winter months, most of England will be in recovery from drought or will have returned to normal conditions by spring 2026.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
“It’s the batting averages of the Johnston Jupiters. We’ve got to be ready for this game!”
From "The Missing Mitt (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #2)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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He averaged 7.7 rebounds and shot 47.6%, including 36.6% from three-point range.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
The Ducks will also be without forward Troy Terry, who averaged 24 goals over the past five seasons, until well into the winter as he recovers from hip surgery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Despite bowling quickly on occasions, Wood averaged 41.73 with the ball across his first 12 Tests.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
With Australia 2-0 up in the series, Wood averaged 90.4mph on day one and transformed the series in an electric spell of pace bowling, famously dismissing Australia opener Usman Khawaja.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
But by 1903, automotive horsepower had greatly improved— one car averaged 65.3 mph in a cross-European race that season—making the races a good spectacle.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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But despite taking the first set, he was distinctly below par throughout the best-of-three encounter, averaging just 82.41.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Cleveland, which entered the game averaging 258 yards rushing per game, were held to barely more than 200 on Friday, most of them scored by senior running back Moyosoreoluwa Odebunmi, who rushed for two scores.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
The sector’s 15th Five-Year Plan targets research-and-development-to-sales ratio of listed pharmaceutical companies averaging higher than 10%, versus the 8% currently estimated by Nomura.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
The benefit is fairly modest, averaging about $9,000 per child annually, in a country where childcare costs can exceed $30,000 a year.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
There was the fact that they were an unusually big and athletic bunch, averaging 190 pounds, beefier and stronger on average than the juniors and seniors.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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