Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] around [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITAIN 'S next generation of buy-in managers will be experienced managing directors seeking greater job satisfaction and who are prepared to invest around £100,000 , according to research by investment capital group 3i . |
| 2 | But if you decide a 33MHz 486SX is the machine for you , be prepared to pay around £100 more than for a comparable 25MHz system . |
| 3 | This leaves around 1400km of post-collision convergence to be accounted for , much of which might be explained by a doubling of the thickness of the Tibetan crust during the past 50 Ma from a ‘ normal ’ value of 35 km to the present 70 km . |
| 4 | Price for a standard configuration system running on the high-end RS/6000 Model 560 costs around $243,000 . |
| 5 | A box of eight costs around £6 |
| 6 | The nine-coach train carrying just twenty-eight passengers each paying around £2,600 a time , was billed as ‘ the highest point yet reached in luxury train travel ’ , its on-train cuisine described as ‘ simply the best on any train anywhere in the world ’ . |
| 7 | Barnet , desperate for money to resolve their problems , are likely to net around £500,000 from the sale to Notts County of striker Gary Bull , cousin of Wolves striker Steve . |
| 8 | These cost around £16.50 . |
| 9 | The first edition of the Anatomy , Descriptive & Surgical ( 1858 ) with 363 wood engravings , is likely to fetch around £200 . |
| 10 | If the council decides to press ahead with the light rail transit scheme , the first phase is likely to cost around £68m . |
| 11 | You wo n't want to miss out , so be sure to allow around £12–14 per trip , all in all the trips will be great value and great fun . |
| 12 | If you book them all , you 'll get a discount booklet saving you £££ 's in the resort , so be sure to allow around £12 to £14 per trip . |
| 13 | Britain , Sweden and West Germany are each giving around £100 million ; Canada , Japan , Kuwait and the EEC have ensured that total aid is more than £400 million . |
| 14 | Ozone measurements obtained by the Microwave Limb Sounder ( MLS ) experiment in September ( three months after the eruption ) , when compared to climatological values , suggest O 3 reductions in the tropical lower stratosphere , but no significant O 3 increases around 30km ( J. W. Waters , personal communication ) . |
| 15 | Each contained around 100lb of Semtex high explosive , five times as much as was used to demolish the Grand Hotel , Brighton , during the 1984 Conservative conference and 40 times the size of an average car bomb . |
| 16 | A 33MHz 4Mb version with 85Mb hard disk , colour monitor , MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 costs around £1,600 ; a 66MHz 8Mb version is around £2,400 . |
| 17 | The nation 's main data-processing firm , Cii-Honeywell Bull , will on its own lose around £90 million this year . |
| 18 | Keeping the Middleton-in-Teesdale station open cost around £90,000 a year about £1,000 each time the ambulance was called out . |
| 19 | A moderately configured Deskpro 60/M costs around £4,200 with the 66/M costing £1,000 more . |
| 20 | Both manage around 120mph flat out and reach sixty from rest in around eleven seconds . |
| 21 | Liverpool were ready to offer around £2million for 26-year-old Clough , who can operate just as easily up front as in midfield . |