Example sentences of "[is] [adv] around [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inflation was running at 11 per cent in 1981 , but it 's only around 8 per cent today . |
| 2 | This is usually around 50 per cent , which can be a serious disadvantage . |
| 3 | But , with rental companies such as Britain 's Thorn-EMI backing the Japanese VHS system , the market share for Europe 's only manufacturer of recorders is still around 5 per cent in Britain and 20 per cent in Western Europe as a whole . |
| 4 | He pointed out in Committee that , according to the Audit Commission , the proportion in inner city areas is probably around 40 per cent . |
| 5 | As expenditure has risen so have taxes and the proportion of G N P taken up by taxes and social security payments is also around 40 per cent . |
| 6 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 7 | Thus cheese is now around 18 per cent more expensive than it was before Black Monday . |