Example sentences of "[prep] around [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Accepted this recommendation while emphasizing that the estimates for the precise amount of plutonium in the fuel discharge from an individual nuclear power station in any one year has a marginal uncertainty of around plus or minus five percent , and the aggregate total of such estimates has a margin of uncertainty of around plus or minus ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Accepted this recommendation while emphasizing that the estimates for the precise amount of plutonium in the fuel discharge from an individual nuclear power station in any one year has a marginal uncertainty of around plus or minus five percent , and the aggregate total of such estimates has a margin of uncertainty of around plus or minus ’ |
| 3 | A dividend of around 5–6p , similar to last year 's level , was the general consensus in both Liverpool and Manchester . |
| 4 | I I eat I do n't usually take my first lot of tablets till sort of around dinner time . |
| 5 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 6 | What about when X is sort of around infinity ? |
| 7 | But they will begin life by taking the 20 years ' accumulation of magnesium oxide cladding from around uranium fuel rods used in the Magnox reactors . |
| 8 | Another red variable is R , in the same × 7 field with Alpha and Theta ; the range is uncertain , but probably from around magnitude 5 to 6 . |
| 9 | Foresters spokesman Raymond Bell of Newton Aycliffe , said members from around County Durham and Cleveland were hoping to set a new fundraising record . |
| 10 | Indeed , it 's pretty openly referred to around No 10 as the Ednaisation Process . |
| 11 | But the fire burned on , with the cost of the damage estimated at around sxity thousand pounds . |
| 12 | Certain of the retailing organizations we spoke to mentioned a smaller , shorter peak at around Easter and many also hired temporary workers for a month or two over the summer to fill in for regular staff who were taking vacations . |
| 13 | I parked my car at around midday and set out towards the Press tent . |
| 14 | The arrived at around quarter to four and Kate staggered across the car park . |
| 15 | It means getting up in the early hours to be ready to board a coach at around 6.30am that will transport them to the South Coast , then bring them back again , arriving home at around midnight . |
| 16 | At around midnight , the chairman used my pregnancy — I was huge by then — as an excuse to break up the meeting : he said that even if no one else was tired , he thought we ought to disperse so that I could get my rest ! |
| 17 | I suffered with her that evening , right through every moment , and when I went to bed at around midnight I could still hear her crying into her pillow — not a sound that sends a mother peacefully to sleep . |
| 18 | The ferry had reportedly sunk almost immediately on hitting coral reefs as it approached Safaga at around midnight . |
| 19 | At around midnight on Sunday he was sleeping on the sofa in the front room of his house in the Rose Hill area of Oxford . |
| 20 | We have been told to expect a fax with the final decision at around midnight on Thursday . ’ |
| 21 | However , in such countries at Bangladesh , Nepal , Pakistan and Yemen , where one half of the girls are married at around age 13 , 15 and 16 , respectively ( and contraceptives are used by only from one to eight per cent of all married women of reproductive age ) the first child is born , on average , from three to five years later , compared to usually less than two years in countries where the median age at marriage is , at least , 17 years . |
| 22 | The immediate post war period was also when the practice of retirement at around age 65 became almost universal among manual workers . |
| 23 | At an interest reset date the bonds trade at around par , assuming the issuer 's credit quality has not deteriorated . |
| 24 | Mr Lawson returned to Blackpool from his Leicestershire home yesterday , and he will reply to a debate on the economy at around noon today . |
| 25 | Make a final sowing of an early carrot , such as ‘ Amsterdam Forcing ’ , ‘ Early Nantes ’ , ‘ Almoro ’ or ‘ Bertop ’ , for pulling as baby carrots at around Christmas time . |
| 26 | Ventilation is very important , therefore in any place where this is absent — such as around floor joists and in roof spaces — suspect the worst . |
| 27 | What about what about issues around around fluency ? |