Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] around [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Atkins at broker UBS Phillips & Drew says : ‘ The decline in property shares since November 1988 relative to the All Share Index has been around 60 per cent . |
| 2 | The US Defence Department had provided on May 22 the approximate estimate that Iraqi military casualties had been around 100,000 dead , but warned that this estimate could be 50 per cent out either way . |
| 3 | Our true airspeed at 1500–2000 feet had been around 145 knots at 2200 rpm and 24 ’ manifold with a fuel flow of 11 gallons per hour . |
| 4 | The Newcastle 's cap and collar mortgage , where the interest can not rise about 10.75 per cent or fall below 9.5 per cent for a full seven years is a good bet , especially when you consider that over the last 10 years , the average interest rate has been around 12 per cent . |
| 5 | Firstly , only slightly more than half the electorate voted , when other turn-outs for referendums have been around two-thirds ; and despite considerable pressure from the clergy , only one-third of the total electorate actually voted for the measure . |
| 6 | Only veteran Phil Carrick has been around long enough to tell them that 45-year-old Robinson was one of the hardest working and most likeable players ever to wear a Yorkshire cap . |
| 7 | This is neither essential nor necessarily healthy for , by now , Koi-keeping in this country has been around long enough to develop a culture all its own . |
| 8 | In the preceding weeks , the figure of those mentioning the Führer in death-announcements in the Münchner Neueste Nachrichten had been around 4 per cent . |