Example sentences for: expectancy

How can you use “expectancy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Over the same period in Europe, where things were already pretty comfortable to begin with, life expectancy increased from 71 to 75 years.

  • Given an assumed remaining life expectancy of 10 years, this gives a VSLY of $258,000, assuming a 3 percent discount rate.

  • “Since 1840, life expectancy has been going up at 2.5 years per decade and will continue at this rate, maybe a little faster,” says Vaupel, head of the Laboratory of Survival and Longevity at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany.

  • Women in Japan currently have the highest average life expectancy of 85, he notes: “So the figure could be 100 in six decades, but not 500.”

  • "The HLE [Happy Life Expectancy] is calculated by multiplying a country's life expectancy in years with a 0-10 scale of average happiness," the newspaper explains.


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