Example sentences of "than around " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of strips held by households were larger and fewer than around Kursk , but distances between houses and plots were even larger , since peasants lived alongside the water-courses away from their land . |
| 2 | Unlike the novelistic of cinema or of the twentieth-century novel , the television novelistic is organized around interruption rather than around closure . |
| 3 | Fish from these waters contain levels of radiation higher than in any other waters , and levels of radiation in the atmosphere around Sellafield are higher than around any other nuclear site . |
| 4 | Making matters worse is that many companies have not hedged themselves against a rising yen this year , expecting the currency not to trade any higher than around the ¥120 level . |
| 5 | Like the Egyptian church , the Celtic church was organised less around the diocese than around the abbey or monastery . |
| 6 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 7 | A placid and leafy place indeed , except that it has also the local nickname of Enfer des palombes or ‘ The wood pigeons ’ hell' , because nowhere are these migrating birds more vigorously hunted on their autumn flight south than around Sare . |
| 8 | These latter values lie close to -70° as shown in table 2 rather than around -100° as found in oligomer crystals and by the modelling we have carried out . |
| 9 | This broad network of clientelism ( which has now been transferred to the cities ) has combined with the fact that many of these societies are highly fragmented , to create a tendency to unite around a leader rather than around an ideology . |
| 10 | I 've had some armchairs brought in and put there at the window in case you want to talk to people more informally than around the table . ’ |
| 11 | Well was n't it better than around my knees though ? |