Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] around [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The original is also in new slimline cans for around 89p . |
| 3 | Six have received senior contracts worth around £25,000 — Gooch , Alec Stewart , Robin Smith , Jack Russell , Phillip DeFreitas and Chris Lewis . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They retail in the shops for around £800 . |
| 6 | They retail in the shops for around £800 . |
| 7 | Finished in Butterscotch and sporting three Chandler ‘ Firebird'-style pickups , this American original retails for around £800 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Because they had squandered all their cash , they each had bank overdrafts of around £1,500 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Proposals for an American droit de suite seek resale royalties of around 5% , paid by the seller of a work of art on the appreciated value of that work ( for European practice , see p. 10 ) . |
| 14 | In return , the government hopes to earn annual revenue in the form of royalties of around $20 million . |
| 15 | German Chancellor Helmut Kohl declared a willingness to contribute additional funds of around $500 million a year as a contribution to an expanded GEF . |
| 16 | The County Council , faced with making savings of around £2 million in its social services budget , is considering bringing in charges for using the centres . |
| 17 | They stress that there is no question of an immediate cash crisis : BBN is sitting on cash reserves of around $48m which should see it through comfortably for around 18 months . |
| 18 | To sum up , the Peugeot is a lightweight , 1.9kg , line trimmer , that will but swathes of around 250mm diameter , making it good for average garden use . |
| 19 | The system is available worldwide through all Parsytec channels from around $12,000 . |
| 20 | Few would dispute that travel broadens the mind , but with basic school fees at the top independent boarding schools at around £10,000 a year and some of these trips costing as much as £2,000 , many hard-pressed parents admit they have come to dread the arrival of the letter informing them that the cricket 1st XI is to visit Zimbabwe . |
| 21 | Mr Fallon , a junior education minister , puts the figure being lost to Darlington schools at around £700,000 each year . |
| 22 | A meeting of the club 's shareholders is expected to confirm the club will go into liquidation with debts of around £550,000 . |
| 23 | Chairman Sir John Hall , however , has stressed that the struggling Second Division club still have to put into operation the so-called rescue package designed to soak up debts of around £5m . |
| 24 | Chairman Sir John Hall , however , has stressed that the struggling Second Division club still have to put into operation the so-called rescue package designed to soak up debts of around £5m . |
| 25 | TREVOR FRANCIS has been promised more cash for new players despite Sheffield Wednesday 's debts of around £2 million . |
| 26 | Long-term debts of around £150,000 continue to finger the back of the club 's neck as unpleasantly as a north-eastern sea fret . |
| 27 | Households with income in the middle 20% pay direct taxes of around 22% of their earnings , and receive cash benefits worth 16% . |
| 28 | This Consolidated Fund revenue ( 169.8bn ) , together with Social Security receipts ( 38.7bn ) , local authority and business rates ( some 14.1bn ) and the community charge ( 8.0bn ) plus other miscellaneous receipts , including those from privatization , are necessary to pay for the government 's expenditure plans of around 258bn in 1992/93 . |
| 29 | They will sell in supermarkets for around 43p . |
| 30 | His Billingham-based operation , Century bought 185 pubs for around £60m from the same brewer last November . |