This is a selection of articles which were saved at FAR over the last few years. I've used the current word count, given that the FARs were all reasonably recent. Double checked a few to see if there was a systemic bias towards lead changes, which there wasn't.

Article Words 28-11-2023 Sentences Words per sentence Words at FAR Difference
The Lord of the Rings (1978 film) 241 12 20
Climate change 486 28 17
Battle of Tippecanoe 270 13 21
Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory 273 12 23
Renewable energy in Scotland 269 12 22
The Million Dollar Homepage 311 10 31 304 7
Caroline Island 185 7 26
Weymouth, Dorset 250 11 23
Battle of Blenheim 450 17 26 421 29
War of the Fifth Coalition 440 19 23 434 6
Menstrual cycle 352 18 20
Group (mathematics) 382 15 25
Spiderland 264 14 19
Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector 349 14 25
Nigel Kneale 183 8 23
Kellie Loder 287 12 24
Wii 513 22 23 483 30
Frédéric Chopin 487 23 21 527 -40
Speed of light 550 22 25 575 -25
Cirrus cloud 291 16 18
Darjeeling 539 23 23 538 1
Green children of Woolpit 329 12 27
Elizabeth II 449 17 26 456 -7
M-28 Business (Ishpeming–Negaunee, Michigan) 206 16 13
90377 Sedna 407 18 23 399 8
Jefferson Davis 381 23 17
History of Timekeeping devices 532 22 24
Leonhard Euler 523 15 35
Malcolm X 488 20 24
Lee Smith 281 11 26
Mean 366 16 23 1
Median 339 16 23
10% percentile 237 11 18
90% percentile 524 23 27

Combined with the December 2022 set, 10% percentile is 206 words, 90% is 488 words, the 5% is 185 and 95% is 523 words.

For sentences, the 5% is 7, 10% is 9, 90% is 22, 95% is 23.

Conclusion: let's say that leads are often between 200 and 500 words and sentences 10 to 20.