Example sentences of "[modal v] be around " in BNC.
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| 1 | If however , you are small-framed , you should be around 8 st 2 lb. |
| 2 | As a rule of thumb , I suggest that would mean the penultimate week 's volume should be around two-thirds of its normal load , while the last week drops down to around one-third . |
| 3 | One should be around 5.7 sq m with a 2.0–2.3m boom , and the smaller one should be around 4.5 sq m with a boom length between 1.65–1.85m . |
| 4 | One should be around 5.7 sq m with a 2.0–2.3m boom , and the smaller one should be around 4.5 sq m with a boom length between 1.65–1.85m . |
| 5 | The ropes should be around three to four feet long and first get your helper to tie it around your wrists . |
| 6 | Water changes should be around 30% per week . |
| 7 | Bosch suggests that the maximum should be around 15 per minute . |
| 8 | Since 1980 , the UK staff have shared a massive £250m in profit sharing hand-outs and this year the figure should be around £50m . |
| 9 | I am nearly 5ft 11ins tall and should be around 11 stone but barely weigh 9st 7lbs ’ , he complains . |
| 10 | Canon has yet to confirm details on price ( it should be around £2,000 ) and availability , but it has announced that the machine will only be sold through high street retailers and computer superstores . |
| 11 | You will find that the brood will grow at a fairly constant rate and should be around 6mm in length in about five weeks . |
| 12 | Under a computerised system the time taken to send an applicant a letter and update his/her record should be around 7½ seconds . |
| 13 | The time must be around 0130 hours . |
| 14 | It 'll be around 30 minutes long and is intended to be a trailer for their new full length video which will be released later this year [ Summer time ? ] . |
| 15 | ‘ But he 'll be around later , ’ Simone told her , ‘ and he 'll be thrilled that you 're here . |
| 16 | Argentina 's crop could be around 10m tonnes . |
| 17 | The City view is that the fall in corporate earnings has stopped and that next year 's increase could be around 15 p.c . |
| 18 | Presenting the 1990 report of the federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ( BfV ) on Aug. 15 , 1991 , Schäuble said that there could be around 15,000 neo-Nazis in eastern Germany . |
| 19 | The Welsh Office is providing £2.7m of extra cash for the whole of Wales this year to help reduce waiting lists , and although yet to be finalised , Clwyd 's share could be around £400,000 , says health authority treasurer , Nigel Morris . |
| 20 | ‘ I jest thought I 'd be around like , in case he needs anythin' . |
| 21 | As for the price paid of 550p , half in cash and half in convertible preference shares , the prospective p/e may be around 14.5 , to judge from an estimated 10 per cent rise in Caradon 's pre-tax profits to £17m in the half year to 1 October . |
| 22 | The precise number is unknown ; but in the 1970s , two American biologists , TL Erwin and JC Scott , produced a plausible estimate , of around 10 million , though it is now thought that the true figure may be around 50 million . |
| 23 | While salaries for newly qualifieds may be around £28,000 to £35,000 with a car , a director with five or six years ' experience in the industry may get £75,000 plus . |
| 24 | As the moisture content of the wood in an unheated structure may be around 15 per cent , it only requires a small amount of damp in an unventilated corner to get the rot going . |
| 25 | He estimates that the project is already 20–25 per cent complete , and that the total number of human genes may be around 75,000 . |
| 26 | In addition , they decide the quantity of the initial pressing of their artists ' recordings ( for a new artist 's first single this would be around 5,000 ) ; they liaise with the manufacturing plant to ensure further stock is available if it is needed ; and they avoid producing stock which would probably never be sold . |
| 27 | The total cost would be around £300 million . |
| 28 | If present marriage rates continue , then the expected proportions of men and women married by age 50 would be around 77% for men and 78% for women , compared with 93% of women and 96% of men in 1971 . |
| 29 | The support facilities on shore for a 200-machine 600 MW cluster of wind generators would be around £25 million while transmission costs were estimated at four times that for a conventional 600 MW power station ( all at mid-1979 prices ) . |
| 30 | The actual saving , they claim , would be around 1.5 billion dollars per year . |