Example sentences of "around a [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That works out as around a thousandth of a foot per year , or 200 years to bury an ammonite ! |
| 2 | In 1987 imports into Britain fell by 12 per cent , although with around a fifth of the market we remained easily the world 's biggest tea importers . |
| 3 | Back in 1984 Trade Indemnity , which reckons it records around a fifth of all the business failures in the UK , noted 3,924 failures . |
| 4 | Around a fifth of the increase was taken up in greater activity , which resulted in a sharp fall in unemployment . |
| 5 | The latest move comes at a time when ICI 's £1.2bn a year pharmaceutical division , which accounts for around a fifth of group trading profits , is set to emerge from a relatively fallow period . |
| 6 | These account for around a fifth of live births in this group of handicaps , but due to the limited life-expectancy , they are not present in the community . |
| 7 | Televisa 's Mr Diez Barroso says rates are cheap — around a fifth of those in America — and that the market would accept them at twice the price . |
| 8 | Although ales represent around a fifth of the nablab sector as a whole , The Brewers ' Society says it is ‘ so small a market that we do n't even bother to quantify it . ’ |
| 9 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |
| 10 | Up to the mid eighteenth century , foreign holdings , predominantly Dutch , amounted to around a fifth of the debt . |
| 11 | In addition , the hospital will rely on a high-wind turbine to provide around a fifth of its power ; it will be enveloped in a plastic membrane to prevent heat loss ; a computer programme will enable it to make the most efficient use of power from various sources ( gas , oil , electricity , wind ) depending on fluctuations in cost and availability ; and heat exchangers and an on-site incinerator will recycle heat . |
| 12 | This outlay represents around a fifth of what it would cost to dispose of the waste locally . |
| 13 | Intent on reducing costs by around $400m , Apple Computer is considering sacking around a tenth of its 15,600 workers . |
| 14 | The jobs of around a tenth of Barnsley 's 7,000 borrowers are under threat . |
| 15 | Wandsworth , South London-based GL Software Ltd now has a Windows version of its Updata price quotation and analysis software which transforms personal computers into a Reuters style dealing desk — for around a tenth of the cost . |
| 16 | Although the insider dealer himself contributes only around a tenth of that volume , he gives a clear enough signal to arbitrageurs in the market , reckons the study . |
| 17 | By 1801 the number of Anglican communicants nationally on Easter Day was 535,000 , only around a tenth of the population of age to be confirmed . |
| 18 | The government hopes that wind power will meet around a tenth of total electricity demand by the year 2000 . |
| 19 | Measured by the government 's official poverty line — which counts as poor a family of four with an income below $12,675 , in 1989 dollars — the proportion of blacks stuck at the bottom has refused to budge from around a third for the past 20 years , compared with a tenth of all whites . |
| 20 | Around a third of people in the study reported being affected by the overlapping benefit rules , and this aroused strong feeling of unjustice . |
| 21 | The sources also reacted favourably to a statement published yesterday by the erstwhile Communist satellite , the People 's Party , calling for the Communists to be restricted in effect to around a third of a new cabinet . |
| 22 | But his young challenger , Mr Steven Baer , won around a third of the vote with little money and no organisation . |
| 23 | Shareholders , arguably entitled to nothing , got around a third of the benefit . |
| 24 | Moreover , trust in Hitler was not simply based upon an early end to the war , but on an early victorious conclusion , and all the indications are that before late 1942 and early 1943 — centring around Stalingrad , the North African reverses , and the mounting allied air supremacy — only a minority of Germans ( around a third of the population according to American surveys carried out in 1945 ) were prepared to concede that the war was lost . |
| 25 | Around a third of those questioned still opposed the attack on Hitler 's life on 20 July 1944 . |
| 26 | There are no traceable physical defects , although around a third of cases have associated handicaps such as epilepsy or spasticity . |
| 27 | If all women aged over 35 years were screened , possibly around a third of births could be prevented . |
| 28 | Actually , not exactly a sea — more a lake , since around a third of Tory MPs did not join in . |
| 29 | Hib meningitis causes around a third of all cases of bacterial meningitis and is the commonest form in children under four . |
| 30 | Around a third of expenditure was absorbed by the projects of the Musée d'Orsay ( opened 1986 ) and the Louvre ( the Pei Pyramid opened 1989 ) with the Richelieu Wing opening later this year . |