Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [noun pl] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He explained : ‘ We 're not really sure what happened the car cut out four or five times around the circuit in one lap and the only way to keep it going was to mess around with the ignition . |
| 4 | Nick Wright of the Photo Co-op also took four or five groups around the exhibition , and some 400 Education Packs were sent to schools around the country , explaining what Magnum is , how it started with a small band of six , and how it has now grown to over a hundred , with offices in New York , Paris and London . |
| 5 | As they sped away , Carlson could see three or four figures around the car , shooting automatic guns into the flaming vehicle . |
| 6 | It takes only a minute or two to wrap a band of netting supported by three or four canes around the plant , threading one cane through generously overlapping ends to keep the band in place . |
| 7 | He has won no fewer than 50 European titles and 17 others around the world . |
| 8 | FORTY thousand Moonies in Seoul and 10,000 couples around the world will wed today in a mass service linked by satellite . |
| 9 | Greggs , based in Newcastle , has seven plants and 450 shops around the country . |
| 10 | During the 1970s and 1980s governments around the world attached increasing importance to monetary policy and less importance to fiscal policy . |