Example sentences of "[noun sg] to around [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In prospect at that time was a further enhancement of the ceiling to around 1.6 per cent in the year 1988 . |
| 2 | The rest is met by a cover-charge of £2.50 an issue to around 40,000 subscribers worldwide . |
| 3 | The area is home to around 5,000 Warrao , Pemon , Kapon and Carib Indians , some of whom have been forced to flee their homes , with a number making their way into the Yanomami reserve . |
| 4 | They point to a real wage drop of 10 to 12 per cent from 1790 to 1795 , then a slight recovery to around 5 per cent below the 1790 level over 1797 – 8 , followed by a plunge bottoming in 1800 – 1 at 30 per cent below the 1790 level . |
| 5 | This is the same principle employed by ripeners in large warehouses where the bananas are subjected to ethylene , pressure and warmth to compress the normally five week process to around five days . |
| 6 | These are dusk to around 1.30 a.m. , and from first glimmer of light to an hour or so after sun-up . |
| 7 | Nationalist protestors from Kurdzhali arrived in Sofia ( the capital ) on Jan. 3 to petition the National Assembly , their numbers swelling on the following day to around 10,000 as supporters joined them from several parts of the country . |
| 8 | from next April will give increases substantially above the current level of inflation to around 3.5 million low-income pensioners where the claimant or partner is aged 60 or over . |
| 9 | They were ( i ) the reduction of the budget deficit from 24 per cent of GDP in 1988 to 10 per cent in 1990 ; ( ii ) cutting inflation to around 7 per cent in 1993 from about 14 per cent in 1989 ; and ( iii ) achieving a current-account balance in 1993 from a deficit equivalent to 6 per cent of GDP in 1988 . |
| 10 | The policy of economic rigour and monetary stability , which had kept inflation to around 3 per cent , would nevertheless be maintained . |
| 11 | ‘ The vintage for this year 's crop should push Carden 's annual output to around 30,000 bottles , ’ a spokesperson said . |
| 12 | Sainsbury 's major new sponsorship will bring great works of art to around 750 secondary schools across Britain . |
| 13 | With loan rates virtually certain to move up over the next month to around 14.75 per cent , a line of credit fixed at 12.95 per cent suddenly seems rather attractive . |
| 14 | Digital Equipment 's UK organisation , based in Reading , has introduced self-management to around 40 teams , covering such areas as finance , personnel , engineering and customer accounts . |
| 15 | The government policy is to expand the total number of beds in the island to around 20,000 and to encourage this expansion to be outside Funchal , thereby opening up the wonderful countryside and expanding the economy of the many small villages . |
| 16 | The proposals would reduce Turkish Cypriot territory from 38 per cent of the island to around 28 per cent . |
| 17 | The UN proposals — rejected by Ankara and by the Turkish Cypriot community — would reduce Turkish territory from 38 per cent of the island to around 28 per cent . |
| 18 | Setting the master volume to around half as a starting point , the channels can be quickly matched for clean , crunch and lead levels . |
| 19 | It has been in operation since last month , giving advice to around six established small and medium-sized businesses a day . |
| 20 | A guide to around 1,000 bookshops in and around London will be published on 15th February , coming from Two Heads Publishing . |
| 21 | By contrast , off-peak sales developed faster than peak sales overall , so that the underlying load factor ( conventionally measured as the actual sales over the year compared with the sales that would have resulted if peak demand had been supplied throughout the year ) rose satisfactorily from around 43 per cent on nationalisation to around 47 per cent ten years later . |
| 22 | The Communists , in contrast , are likely to see their share of the vote fall from the 11 per cent they won in the last general election to around 8-9 per cent . |
| 23 | New boy and new hope Keith Scott brings the spending total to around 1.7 million . |
| 24 | Over the last five years , the number of centres entering candidates for National Certificate has grown steadily and , over the same period , the number of modules in the catalogue has risen from around 700 in the first year of operation to around 2500 this year . |
| 25 | It has declined in number to around 20,000 , scattered in colonies across the country . |
| 26 | The Region also recently sponsored a parents ' evening at Broughton High School , which provided information to around 150 parents on provision including general SVQs and National Certificate Module Clusters . |
| 27 | In seven areas — Scottish Borders , Dumfries and Galloway , Tyne and Wear , Northamptonshire , Shropshire , Gwent and Gloucestershire — the losses amount to around 60 per cent . |
| 28 | Tiger numbers in India , which had fallen from 40,000 at the beginning of the century to around 2,000 at the end of the 1960s , rose to 4,300 by 1989 , said officials . |
| 29 | The number of companies mentioning environmental issues in their annual reports has doubled over the last year to around 18 per cent of the total . |
| 30 | At a meeting on 4 April , just before the fair closed , organisers decided to reduce the number of exhibitors next year to around sixty and control quality more strictly . |