Example sentences of "[prep] around [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After around 400yds a faint path doubles back heading past a low hill and Loch Coulavie . |
| 2 | It is currently holding a gilt auction of around £3 billion on the last Wednesday of every month . |
| 3 | An estimate of around £3 million has been given . |
| 4 | I like a soft rod of around llb t.c . |
| 5 | Carnaud Metal Box is looking for offers of around £1,000,000 for the factory and its surrounding offices . |
| 6 | The pond has a natural temperature of around 21°C during summer , due to the excellent insulation of the filter system and the natural properties of the conservatory . |
| 7 | With budgets of around £50,000 , the preference was for gentle tales with a non-urban setting such as The Brave Do n't Cry ( 1952 ) , about a Scottish mining disaster ; Conflict of Wings ( 1953 , Fuss Over Feathers in US ) , in which East Anglian villagers fight for the cause of bird sanctuaries against the needs of the RAF ; Judgement Deferred ( 1951 ) and Brandy for the Parson ( 1951 ) , both of which are smuggling stories . |
| 8 | Donations are the key , although Crisis makes a cash injection of around £50,000 . |
| 9 | With current failure rates of around 1% a year a new design that was a 30% improvement over an older one ( a truly radical improvement ) would require a trial of many thousands of patients followed up for at least a decade before a significant difference could be shown . |
| 10 | There , at depths between 1,300 and 2,500 feet and in temperatures of around 20°C , eels lay their eggs . |
| 11 | Cade occurs frequently in the early pipe rolls of Henry II 's reign , where payments to him of around £5,600 are recorded , in settlement of various loans that he had made to the Crown . |
| 12 | TREVOR FRANCIS has been promised more cash for new players despite Sheffield Wednesday 's debts of around £2 million . |
| 13 | The County Council , faced with making savings of around £2 million in its social services budget , is considering bringing in charges for using the centres . |
| 14 | The Messenger Group and Guardian system is much larger with 86 workstations across 14 sites and a price tag of around £250,000 . |
| 15 | The annual Tea Meeting on 12 January 1886 involved buying tea at 2/6 per pound ( about 13p ) , sugar at 2d per pound ( about 1p ) and 15 pounds of sweets at 5d per pound ( a total cost of around 32p ) . |
| 16 | ( This is equivalent to an annual interest rate of around 11% net ) . |
| 17 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG limped in with its first half figures two days after its parent reported , complaining that falling computer prices would lead to a a fall in turnover of around $635m — that 's one billion marks — in the business year to September 30 : the company belatedly responded to Reuter 's inquiries after the announcement of the parent 's figures by saying that Nixdorf first half sales fell 9% to $3,555m and that orders fell 5% to $3,620m ; it would not forecast the group 's earnings but pointed to earlier company predictions of a slight improvement this year last year 's $326m loss . |
| 18 | The British Rail pension scheme now has assets of around £8.5 billion . |
| 19 | * The latest estimates of global warming from the Climate Research Unit , at the University of East Anglia , predict an average warming of 0.2 degrees per decade , with an accompanying rise in sea levels of around 4cm . |
| 20 | ‘ Contrary to rumours circulating in the area , the Cambrian News is not in financial difficulties , and we are simply placing the contract for printing the paper elsewhere because we can not justify an investment of around 2m ( pounds ) for new machinery to go tabloid and bring in colour , ’ said Mr Read , whose great grandfather established the company in Aberystwyth in 1890 . |
| 21 | A 24-YEAR-OLD woman was arrested and cannabis with a street value of around £2,000 seized following a search of a house at Palestine Street , Belfast , yesterday . |
| 22 | Other forecasters are looking for a deficit of around $50 billion . |
| 23 | The picture was bought on the telephone by a private European buyer , exceeding its unpublished pre-sale estimate of around £300,000–400,000 . |
| 24 | BCCI expected further losses for 1990 of around $450 million , and was reportedly planning a radical rationalization when its assets were seized . |
| 25 | Chairman Sir John Hall , however , has stressed that the struggling Second Division club still have to put into operation the so-called rescue package designed to soak up debts of around £5m . |
| 26 | Chairman Sir John Hall , however , has stressed that the struggling Second Division club still have to put into operation the so-called rescue package designed to soak up debts of around £5m . |
| 27 | Many fixed-rate mortgages are now being refinanced at interest rates of around 8% . |
| 28 | A meeting of the club 's shareholders is expected to confirm the club will go into liquidation with debts of around £550,000 . |
| 29 | Analysts said last night that oil prices could stabilise at present levels of around $18 a barrel if OPEC could prevent ‘ leakage ’ which would cause total cartel supply to rise above 24 million bpd until the end of June . |
| 30 | He forced his way into our 3rd Division promotion team , playing alongside Brian Wood in an early dual central defender 's role , and from then onward missed only an occasional game through injury for four years in Division Two , before joining West Ham in March 1968 for a club record fee of around £80,000 . |