1.   Currently, the average household has access to dozens of channels.

2.   In the average urban white household, parents like to quiz their children about this and that.

3.   Surveys of viewing patterns show that in an average household the television set is in use over seven hours a day.

4.   Only luxury items beyond the reach of the average household remained on open sale.

5.   Labour argued that its fair rates scheme would make average households better off.

6.   American households with children tend to be less affluent than the average American household, a pattern that is not true in many other countries.

7.   And he pointed to research showing that the average American household spends more than eight hours per day watching TV.

8.   As a group, Chinese-Americans are better educated, save more and earn more than the average United States household, Ms. Miller said.

9.   But sophisticated databases can now identify the consumers who make the most catalog purchases, and such buyers can be inundated with far more catalogs than the average household.