Example sentences of "[adv] around [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since highly fluid flows have an initial slope of only around 1° they form monotonously flat constructional landscapes . |
| 2 | In 1982/83 public expenditure was 47% of GDP ; in 1992/93 it was only around 42% of GDP . |
| 3 | Only around 20% of the French paintings and drawings seen in New York will be used for the London exhibition . |
| 4 | The treatment prescribed in may cases is either vitamin B6 or the contraceptive pill ( only around 20% of respondents found either to be helpful ) . |
| 5 | Now they are only around 1% of sales . |
| 6 | For example , in 1978 a Caratacus silver unit of the Atrebates tribe ( 35–40 AD ) was valued at £2,500 ; at present the same coin would be worth only around £250 and its value is still falling . |
| 7 | In 1980 , UK bank-lending to industry was only around 22% of GDP , whereas in France the figure was 30% , in West Germany almost 34% and in Japan around 51% . |
| 8 | The total cost was estimated at $600,000 , although only around $60,000 was reimbursed to the government either by Sununu or by the Republican Party . |
| 9 | ‘ I am a chartered surveyor and only around 6% of us are women . |
| 10 | Moss says Tivoli could have TME source re-written in the Corba IDL language within six months and says there is only around 5% difference between the object technologies in the OSF , SunSoft and USL solutions . |
| 11 | Moss says Tivoli could have TME source re-written in the Corba IDL language within six months and says there is only around 5% difference between the object technologies in the Open Software Foundation , SunSoft and Unix Labs systems . |
| 12 | However Candle believes its current incarnation — Data Facility/System-Managed Storage — does not go far enough : gathering statistics from the Gartner Group , International Data Corp and Xephon Plc , Candle suggests that mainframe disk requirements are growing at 28% per year , while at the same time only around 50% to 75% of the space is actually used . |
| 13 | If all computers had a modem , and only around 15% do , which the software could communicate with then on-screen dialling would be a viable proposition and the office telephone list might join the notebook and calculator . |
| 14 | However , the Association represents only around 80% of the finance and leasing industry , and many of the largest operators in the photocopier sector are not members . |
| 15 | By the time the season started I had completed only around 800kms of testing while most of the other top guys had done as much as 6000km . |
| 16 | Troubled Telecom Eireann has abandoned a plan to build a new headquarters in Ballsbridge , Dublin , and the decision may cost the company more than £6m ; it bought the site for £9.4m in 1990 , but it is now worth only around £5m ; the company may also be required to pay for a government investigation into the purchase , which is also under scrutiny from the Fraud Office . |
| 17 | One surprising factor is that given a new case is only around £50 there is nothing stopping you from moving everything into a new box if the old one is n't big enough to take a standard size motherboard . |
| 18 | The bonds will return only around 7% a year , but $21m-worth had been sold by January 23rd . |
| 19 | The home counties of Bedfordshire , Berkshire and Buckinghamshire have the lowest proportions of retired , with only around 14% of the population of pensionable age , and just 5% aged 75 and over . |
| 20 | A Tuesday creditors meeting heard that only around £40,000 could be realised by the sale of its assets . |
| 21 | Successive opinion polls in recent years have found only around 10% overall in favour of a united Ireland under present circumstances . |
| 22 | Investors who bought at the peak have lost heavily ; today the price is only around $380 . |
| 23 | The bid , understood to be only around £300,000 , has no chance of acceptance by the Glasgow club . |
| 24 | Although the statistics are hardly firm , it would seem that by the end of the eighteenth century county rates , used mostly for gaols , criminal prosecution , constables and , to a smaller extent , bridge repair , aggregated only around £300,000 , but the levying of the parish rate for the relief of the poor was of much greater import . |
| 25 | The winners , for example , will collect only around £5,000 less than the £30,000 total prize money that was on offer for the sub-continent 's 1987 World Cup , which is doubtless why Australia and the West Indies were eventually persuaded to join the party after originally blowing it a loud raspberry . |
| 26 | Shares yield only around 3% , 5.5 percentage points below the return on Treasury bonds . |
| 27 | Other people have sworn by the virtues of Figi or Scorpion skis ( only around 65cm long ) but these sink too much at slow speeds , though they 're great fun for the occasional skirmish . |
| 28 | Pick Systems Inc has recognised for some time that it will have to concentrate on the database side of Pick 's personality in order to survive , but currently only around 40% of sales comes from Pick for Unix , with a few percent going to the MD-DOS implementation and the native Intel Corp iAPX-86 implementation accounting for the biggest part of the business . |
| 29 | The Scarlets are expecting a capacity 14,500 crowd to bring in around £70,000 . |
| 30 | Mr Sefton said : ‘ It is absolutely vital that Stockton wins because the bid will bring in around £100 million over a five-year period for the regeneration of the town . |