There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.
Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.
If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.
I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue.
And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.
More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.
Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a five-pound bag of sugar.
The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.
I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.
Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.
I've lived nearby since 1981 and probably have averaged one run a week there. That's more than 1,000 repetitions, and I have yet to tire of this course.
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.
Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe the figures are more like several thousand.
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it.
