Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their vision is simple : to plant 100 new churches in their area by the end of the decade , using a base of around sixty-six already functioning Elim churches in the north-west . |
| 2 | Best argues that in the early 1920s there was a conversion of land from rural to urban uses at a rate of 9,100 ha per annum , but that this increased to a level of around 21,000 ha during the 1930s . |
| 3 | On Oct. 10 the bank 's governor , José Tavares Moreira , announced that Portugal would not enter the ERM until it was clear that inflation was in decline ; it was understood that a level of around 7-8 per cent would be acceptable . |
| 4 | A budget of around FFr50 million has been allocated to the Centre international d'histoire des arts et du patrimoine which has been allocated 17,000 square metres of space next to the rue Vivienne . |
| 5 | Although lasers have been dropping in price , you 'll still need a budget of around £500 , whereas inkjets start at around £150 . |
| 6 | More than fifty libraries are maintained by a budget of around four million pounds a year . |
| 7 | The Chancellor announced a rise of around 6.5 per cent for all tobacco products , pushing the price of 20 cigarettes up by about 10p . |
| 8 | The Chancellor announced a rise of around 6.5 per cent for all tobacco products , pushing the price of 20 cigarettes up by about 10p . |
| 9 | The surf was crashing outside my window and I was caressing a sentence at around 1 a.m. when the phone rang . |
| 10 | These were called W+ ( pronounced W plus ) , w ( pronounced W minus ) , and Q ( pronounced Z naught ) , and each had a mass of around 100 GeV ( GeV stands for giga-electron-volt , or one thousand million electron volts ) . |
| 11 | Q. I am a beginner with around a year 's experience and I set up a 48″ × 21″ × 18″ ( water height ) marine tank last December . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | All you have to do is send the invoices you want factored to your factor and , provided they approve the accounts they will send you a cheque for around 80 per cent of their value by return mail . |
| 14 | The universal weapon was the compound bow , which had a pull of around a hundred and sixty pounds . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Other forecasters are looking for a deficit of around $50 billion . |
| 17 | In response , TNO told the primate centre and its associated radiobiology and immunology research institute ITRI to make good a deficit of around DF13.7 million ( US$2 million ) . |
| 18 | Both STC and Plessey are working on this technology , for use in submarine telephone fibre , but the current best bet for domestic cable is a wavelength of around 0.8 micrometres . |
| 19 | Eventually , a settlement of around £300,000 was reached . |
| 20 | They are to share in a grant of around £12,500 donated by the Ireland Fund in Canada to help new integrated projects get off the ground . |
| 21 | A woman and seven children left a house in nearby Gudmunsen Avenue after a fire was discovered in a bedroom at around 7.30am on Saturday . |
| 22 | The 10th anniversary on May 4 of the death of Josip Broz Tito , the founder of communist Yugoslavia , was marked by a minute 's silence throughout the country , but also by a demonstration by around 2,000 Serbs in Belgrade calling for an end to the personality cult surrounding Tito and for his remains to be moved from Belgrade to his native Croatia . |
| 23 | Two days earlier , Democratic Platform had been one of the groups responsible for organizing a demonstration by around 50,000 people in Moscow 's Manezh Square in protest at the CPSU . |
| 24 | A demonstration by around 20,000 people on Oct. 26 prompted the Slovak government to step up security in Bratislava . |
| 25 | Maureen O'Hara , of the Children 's Legal Centre , said : ‘ The 1933 Children and Young Persons Act does not define an age when children are competent to give evidence , but case law has tended to set a figure of around seven or eight . |
| 26 | Although the total numbers used in the USA are vastly higher , Rollin ( 1981 : 91 ) gives a figure of around 100 million for 1980 but this had reportedly declined by about 10 per cent by 1988 , the percentage breakdowns are remarkably similar . |
| 27 | Just how many made the passage is a matter of considerable argument , but a figure of around 2 million will do . |
| 28 | It is essential when screwing a mirror to a wall that the wall is flat , and there should be a gap of around 3mm behind the mirror to allow it to ‘ breathe ’ . |
| 29 | Shares in Carlton slumped by 20p to 832p on news of the sale which leaves Mr Green 's private company with a holding of around 5.3million shares . |
| 30 | Although the 1914–18 war quickened the speed of the decline in fertility and resulted , during a loss of around 600,000 unborn children who would otherwise have been brought into the world , at no time did the rate touch the low level at which it stood in 1939 . |