The city's crime rate in 2003 was 91.4% of the national average.

The figure is still only 93 percent of the national average, but improving.

What you did is way beyond the law of averages.

Salaries are now at 99.4 percent of the national average.

That was just the law of averages on his side.

This time July became a sort of average for four key developments.

The current rate is usually some kind of smoothed average and will move over time.

They are not very good soldiers, but a cross section of average, independent men.

Last year's total was 153, one shy of the 10-year average.

Income tax is well below that of other industrial states and the national average.