Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] around [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left-wing parties were highly critical of the proposals , and called instead for increases in public spending to reduce unemployment , which was expected to remain at around 10 per cent . |
| 2 | The economy was predicted to expand by 8 per cent in 1992 , its ninth year of consecutive growth , while inflation was expected to fall to around 13 per cent , from 18.7 per cent at the end of 1991 . |
| 3 | By the year 2010 this figure is forecast to grow to around 87 per cent . |
| 4 | Revenues from oil and gas production were expected to amount to around 20,000 million kroner in 1990 , equivalent to nearly 7 per cent of the national budget . |
| 5 | Although inflation in October is expected to decline to around 7.2 per cent , because a 1.25 per cent increase in mortgage rates in October last year will drop out of the annual comparison , the recently announced increases in mortgage rates will send inflation back up again in November . |
| 6 | But in October , the rate is expected to slow to around 63 4 per cent because a mortgage rate rise in October 1988 drops out of the annual comparison . |
| 7 | If the worst-case predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are fulfilled , with sea level rises accelerating to a 10 cm rise every decade , the Thames barrier can be expected to fail by around 2030 . |
| 8 | By the early 1980s its annual emission had been reduced to 630,000 tonnes ( equivalent to the total national emissions of sulphur dioxide from countries such as Sweden , Belgium and Denmark ) and , in line with Canadian policy , it is expected to decrease to around 300,000 tonnes by 1995 . |
| 9 | The North 's share of the world 's energy consumption was expected to decrease from around 70 per cent to 60 per cent by 2020 , but in that time the proportion of the global population living in the South would have grown from 75 per cent to 80 per cent . |
| 10 | But this stupendous growth rate is starting to slow down and world population is expected to stabilize at around ten billion less than 60 years from now . |
| 11 | Revenue was expected to rise by around 40 per cent to 1,090,460 million forint compared with 1992 , while expenditure was expected to rise by around 30 per cent to 1,275,830 million forint . |
| 12 | Revenue was expected to rise by around 40 per cent to 1,090,460 million forint compared with 1992 , while expenditure was expected to rise by around 30 per cent to 1,275,830 million forint . |
| 13 | Interest rates were set to fall to around 21 per cent following the Central Bank of Nigeria 's announcement of a new base rate of 14 per cent . |
| 14 | GDP was set to grow at around 3 per cent until 1997 , with unemployment declining slowly from 6.9 per cent in 1992 to 5.3 per cent in 1997 . |
| 15 | The peso and the austral would be allowed to co-exist for around six months , but with cheques in australes valid only until March 31 . |