Example sentences of "around [num] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pH of around 7–7.5 and a temperature of 82–84°s ; should also be aimed for . |
| 2 | Around six and a half hours are allowed in which to complete the race ; a search party is sent after that ! |
| 3 | BARB 's research shows that the average individual watches around three and a half hours of television per day ( and has done so for at least the last 10 years ) , just over half of this being ITV . |
| 4 | They told us three and a half , but there again a lot of rescue people do cut the ages of their dog , but , but , our , our two vets agreed he was around three and a half , between three and a half and four , look at his teeth and his coat and his bones . |
| 5 | First , the length of time which couples spend in shared accommodation has fallen from an average of almost three years for people who married before 1955 , to around one and a half years for people married in the late 1960s ( p. 12 ) . |
| 6 | BNFL 's investment in West cumbria — including spending on plant at Sellafield — amounted to around one and a half millions pounds a day , every day , for the last 10 years , Sir Christopher Harding told guests at a dinner of the Cumbria Society . |
| 7 | So if you took a six week period then you 're looking at somewhere around four and a half thousand pounds worth of income . |
| 8 | Our project took around two and a half hours to complete , stopping from time to time to take photographs and make tea ! |
| 9 | In truth , you need around two and a half to three feet ( that 's up to a metre in Blue Peter-speak ) of front-to-back space to site the beast , which may seem a little profligate for a printer 's footprint , but is worth it , believe me . |
| 10 | Employees who first went through the Heartwatch programme around two and a half years ago will soon be recalled for another assessment . |
| 11 | That means we are looking at having to dispose of around two and a half million tons of wet sewage every year by the end of the century , and the law says that we will not be able to dispose of it at sea . ’ |