Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] around the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any involvement in the race issue was around the anti-Fascist campaigns of that time . |
| 2 | Poldhu Cove was around the next corner . |
| 3 | Olschewski said that profits were around the two figure million mark , but would n't provide more specific details . |
| 4 | For two years my father-in-law shuffled the money around various building societies , chasing the best interest rates , which at times were around the 20 per cent mark . |
| 5 | By 1980 , registrations were around the 3,000 mark . |