Example sentences of "[adv] around [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1982/83 public expenditure was 47% of GDP ; in 1992/93 it was only around 42% of GDP . |
| 2 | Only around 20% of the French paintings and drawings seen in New York will be used for the London exhibition . |
| 3 | The treatment prescribed in may cases is either vitamin B6 or the contraceptive pill ( only around 20% of respondents found either to be helpful ) . |
| 4 | Now they are only around 1% of sales . |
| 5 | 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% . |
| 6 | ‘ I am a chartered surveyor and only around 6% of us are women . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Figures suggest the government expects to pull in around £1bn from adding on VAT at 17.5pc . |
| 13 | Invertebrates are generally defined as animals that do not have a backbone or internal skeleton and that simple definition takes in around 97% of the whole of the living species of animals in the world . |
| 14 | In practice , a zaronim is usually around 6′ by 4′ ( 1.83 × 1.22 m ) or 5′ by 3′ 6″ ( 1.52 × 1.07 m ) . |
| 15 | Moreover , for purchases and bills in general , cards tend to work out cheaper than the cash alternative , as the card issuers tot up all the day 's transactions and exchange the total at a favourable exchange rate , usually around 2% to 3% better than the one available to the public . |
| 16 | To that extent , the oil sector , that makes up around 8% of the stockmarket 's capitalisation , could be said to be 100% dollar sensitive . |
| 17 | In previous years , school pupils have made up around 15% of the candidates — but last season , school entries made up just under 28% . |
| 18 | Contributions from runners usually make up around £20,000 of ASPIRE 's annual revenue . |
| 19 | But they offer the worst rate of return , paying out around 30p in £1 after 40 per cent in duty and arts fund levy has been deducted . |
| 20 | Today around 80% of the prints I produce now use this technique . |
| 21 | Today around 80% of the prints I produce now use this technique . |
| 22 | Water costs somewhere around 50p per cubic metre ( 220 gallons ) . |
| 23 | It suggested that up to 20% of the school population might have such needs at some time in their school career ( previously around 2% of children had been legally classed as ‘ handicapped ’ ) . |
| 24 | That extra purchase price , and the cost of the more frequent oil-change services a diesel car requires , have to be balanced against the savings in fuel likely to be made — currently around 195p per gallon . |
| 25 | Sedimentation rates for intervals containing a high proportion of laminated sediment are commonly around 10cm per thousand years ( cmkyr -1 ) ( ref. 5 ) . |