Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 7,500 clubs around the UK are invited to enter a team of five people to carry out a local environmental project . |
| 2 | To a great extent , COMDEX is a show-case for new technology giving a glimpse of the future , and yet , multinational companies with large research and development budgets mingle shoulder to shoulder with over 2,000 smaller manufacturers , suppliers and resellers from 22 countries around the world . |
| 3 | They 'll sell two million pairs in America this year … and are now exporting to 22 countries around the world … winning R Griggs and Co a Queens Export award in the process . |
| 4 | Your covenant means we help children in 53 countries around the globe . |
| 5 | Penarth was just one of 30 sites around the country being cleaned up by the MCS on a National Beach Clean day in April . |
| 6 | LASMO is the operator of exploration and development projects in 12 countries around the world . |
| 7 | As more East Germans joined the cries for help , the diplomat burst through the front door and sprinted 300 yards around the embassy perimeter until he reached the grotesque tug-of-war . |
| 8 | During the last 30 years there have been 12 accidents around the world that have caused serious damage to a reactor core . |
| 9 | The L+F+ pair and the L-F- pair were in fixed locations relative to the white curtains for group fixed ( as shown ) , but in any of 49 locations around the inner pixel grid for group varied . |
| 10 | Over the next couple of years , Intelmet plans to link another 30 hotels around the world . |
| 11 | we 've got to have them — we 'll need one every 50-75 miles around the country , with smaller mini-sites to feed into the ones like this in Milton Keynes . |
| 12 | It operates in thirty-seven countries around the world and in 1988 celebrated ninety years in the recorded music business . |
| 13 | By 1970 , eleven countries around the world had joined the prestigious nuclear power race . |
| 14 | All Zurich 's 120 companies around the world are in the process of identifying priorities in at least four markets : private customers , small companies , big companies and global corporations . |
| 15 | If the group 's total annual output in biscuits were laid edge to edge , they would stretch twice to the moon and back , or forty-eight times around the equator . |
| 16 | British Airways is one of the largest cargo-carrying airlines in the world , earning revenues of £390 million from the carriage of 506,000 tonnes around the globe in 1990/91 . |
| 17 | There is ample evidence to support this in Price Waterhouse 's latest International Information Technology Review which tracks investment intentions in 10 countries around the world . |
| 18 | NCR says it now licenses LAN Manager for Unix Systems to more than 10 companies around the world , in parallel with Microsoft Corp 's separate licensing effort . |
| 19 | Although flying is officially banned within a radius of one nautical mile and below 2,000 feet around the station , Dr Ray Seymour , a research physicist from Somerset County Council , produced Ministry of Defence figures which showed that roughly 2,400 flights each year from the nearby Yeovilton air base pass over or adjacent to Hinkley Point . |
| 20 | Mr Duff has looked at four possible open air venues but is likely to settle for one end of the Headlingley rugby pitch with 2,000 seats around the ring and the use of the stand . |
| 21 | Each of the six towers around the walls was built primarily for defence , but also as a focus for painful emotions and experiences . |
| 22 | Simply by filling in a form giving a few details such as variety of wheat to be grown , date of planting and previous cropping in the field , Davies and his colleagues can , with the addition of weather data fed in 365 days a year from 45 centres around the country , predict with unerring accuracy exactly when the farmer should spread his ‘ Nitram ’ to get the best results . |
| 23 | If the Chinese think it is worth going to all the trouble and expense of shipping this equipment 12,000 miles around the world , how is it that British industry can not make it pay ? ’ |
| 24 | Last Spring five folks from the fellowship walked 10 miles around the South Side of Glasgow . |
| 25 | It remains an unmistakably French collection sold in three official Chipie shops in London , plus a further 100 stockists around the country . |
| 26 | On a more light-hearted note , Gubbio is also known as the ‘ paese dei malti ’ — the town of the mad people — and to qualify as mad you have simply to run three times around the Bargello Fountain . |
| 27 | This means that in the case of fish some of the blood must make two or three trips around the lung circuit , and some carbon-dioxide-bearing blood makes several trips round the body before returning to the heart . |
| 28 | I actually use Super P C , well I 've got , I 've got three machines around the office . |
| 29 | After coming up with the idea of the specialised oil , Augusto Odone contacted a dozen scientists around the world working on myelin repair . |
| 30 | A week after the meeting , Cobh , Midleton and Passage West , three towns around the Harbour , expressed support for the Ringaskiddy residents ' campaign and urged An Taisce to review its support for Raybestos 's use of asbestos . |