Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] around [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steffi Graf has won it for six of the last seven years , picking up a cheque for around £45,000 for her latest victory in October . |
| 2 | Lorraine Ludlow , from the West Midlands , lost three ponies worth around £1,000 each to thieves who travelled from the North-East to steal them . |
| 3 | The original is also in new slimline cans for around 89p . |
| 4 | Six have received senior contracts worth around £25,000 — Gooch , Alec Stewart , Robin Smith , Jack Russell , Phillip DeFreitas and Chris Lewis . |
| 5 | Sheep farmer Hare , 39 , who yesterday was out lambing at South Clifton , near Newark , will take up full-time duties in June and , initially , has a two-year contract worth around £25,000 per annum . |
| 6 | THE Capita Group has won a contract worth around £24 million over five years to manage financial services for the London borough of Bromley , it was announced yesterday . |
| 7 | Stroll along the banks of the River Arno , sit in the Boboli Gardens by the fountains , eat hearty pizzas or huge dramatic sandwiches stuffed with cheese , tomato and salami for around £3 . |
| 8 | The centres offer a party package of admission , shoe hire , game and birthday tea for around £5 per head , but we have ten parties , each for ten children , to give away . |
| 9 | We should , as our French guest realised but was too polite to say , have eaten in lovely hilltop Gassin where vine-hung terrace restaurants offered menus gastronomiques and very chic settings for around £20 per head . |
| 10 | A report in Le Monde of Sept. 20 disclosed that India faced the loss of workers ' remittances from Iraq and Kuwait totalling $400 million , and would lose exports to Iraq and Kuwait worth around $185 million , while an oil price increase of $3.00 per barrel would add $1,700 million to its oil import bill . |
| 11 | They retail in the shops for around £800 . |
| 12 | They retail in the shops for around £800 . |
| 13 | Rover 416 GSi models of similar age can be bought under the hammer for around £7250 and a Sierra 2.0i Ghia for £7500 . |
| 14 | You can hire a car for around £20 a day but beware bumpy roads . |
| 15 | His Pakistan team-mate , paceman Wasim Akram , re-signed for Lancashire in a five-year deal worth around £250,000 . |
| 16 | Pearce , who signed a five-year deal worth around £1million two years ago , is looking for a rise despite a wage packet that puts him on nearly £4,000 a week . |
| 17 | He has already signed a three-year deal with Harper Collins in the United States for around £11 million . |
| 18 | Finished in Butterscotch and sporting three Chandler ‘ Firebird'-style pickups , this American original retails for around £800 . |
| 19 | The kit is going on sale in Britain in a few months for around £14,000 and takes between 500 and 1,000 hours to complete . |
| 20 | Inside , the wheel of around 14ft diameter is still in place , as is some of the wooden gearing . |
| 21 | Because they had squandered all their cash , they each had bank overdrafts of around £1,500 . |
| 22 | The outfit has moved from losses of around £1.7m in calendar year 1991 , to an as-yet unfinalised figure in the black — which should be well in excess of £1m — for 1992 . |
| 23 | There was also political interest in the involvement of Neil Bush , the President 's son , a junior director of Silverado , a Colorado thrift which collapsed in 1988 with losses of around $1,000 million . |
| 24 | In fact the seller delivered a different quality of seed altogether ; as a result the eventual crop was worthless and the plaintiff farmer suffered losses of around £91,000 . |
| 25 | And it had a top speed of around 105mph , at a time when most family saloons were struggling to reach 70mph . |
| 26 | With an 850cc fuel-injected engine , it will have a top speed of around 95mph with acceleration to 60 in about 11 seconds . |
| 27 | However , profits have crashed at the liqueur-maker , which is controlled by the wealthy Mackinnon family , and in 1991 the newly-formed holding company reported a loss of around £4 million . |
| 28 | On Wednesday night Linfield were out of the competition , beaten fairly it seemed by an aggregate score of 3-2 and facing a loss of around £15,000 on the failed European venture . |
| 29 | Conklin ( 1977 : 4 ) estimates that in 1977 these four offences in the USA accounted for between $3–4 billions compared with the annual loss of around $40 billions resulting from various white-collar crime , of which consumer fraud , illegal competition , and deceptive practices account for at least half . |
| 30 | It is currently holding a gilt auction of around £3 billion on the last Wednesday of every month . |