Example sentences of "by around " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gilt-edged stocks increased by around an £1/8 Marks & Spencer retreated with the rest of the high street pack . |
| 2 | The Abbey National , now a bank , and the Leeds Permanent and the Halifax building societies were quick to break the bad news to already hard-pressed homeowners by stating that mortgage rates will probably have to rise by around 1.25 points to 14.75 per cent . |
| 3 | Moreover , he says that the present level of interest rates may mean that instead of prices stagnating next year they could fall by around 10 per cent . |
| 4 | The late Victorian and Edwardian period offered low taxes , cheap servant labour , and reasonable returns of capital whilst the retail price index fell by around 10 per cent between the wars . |
| 5 | The stockmarket is up by around 30% from its low at the start of October . |
| 6 | Intent on reducing costs by around $400m , Apple Computer is considering sacking around a tenth of its 15,600 workers . |
| 7 | If that rose even to 1.5 , travel times would drop by nearly a quarter and pollution by around a fifth . |
| 8 | Although the fuel economy has improved by around 30 per cent over the past decade , there is evidence that the younger generation , in particular , feels the car is too ostentatious in today 's environment . |
| 9 | ‘ Share prices simply look cheap , ’ he said , adding that fund managers were convinced that the economy as a whole is set to grow by 11/2 p.c. this year , with corporate earnings rising by around 5 p.c . |
| 10 | Bradford , possibly playing their last match at Odsal , with continuing speculation of a move to Valley Parade , and desperate for a Rovers victory , need to thrash relegated Swinton by around 40 points to close the scoring difference on both Hull and Salford . |
| 11 | Oil demand is likely to fall by around 12% to some 64 million tonnes per year , largely due to continued reduction in the use of oil for heat and steam raising . |
| 12 | During the eighteenth century this duty devolved on their deputies , the Sixty Clerks , and by around 1800 suitors were employing their own solicitors . |
| 13 | This alone improves NEC by around £70/kW/ year and the final NEC works out at the much more favourable — £93/kW/year . |
| 14 | Supplementing this permanent organisation are 4000 more software engineers and programmers supplied by around 250 subcontractors . |
| 15 | It takes between two and seven years to convert to a certifiable organic system and yields reduce by around 20 per cent after conversion . |
| 16 | Some dinosaurs that evolved during the Permian/Triassic reduced their body mass by around 35 per cent or more , and may have had their dimensions reduced by 50 per cent . |
| 17 | Constitutional change usually came about tenth , nominated by around 12 per cent of the electorate . |
| 18 | And in the few areas of the UK where fluoride is added to the water , dental carries have been reduced by around 50% . |
| 19 | Despite these difficulties , by around 1920 most headmen co-operated to some extent with the police . |
| 20 | By around 1910 the cultivation of rubber and tea had brought about a more permanent change . |
| 21 | Both players were standing outside the players ' lounge when three men ran past them into the building , for which they are believed to have produced entrance tickets , pursued by around 20 Rangers fans . |
| 22 | With house prices likely to have fallen by around 5% in 1992 , a further decline in prices of 2%-3% this year would be sufficient for this traditional trough to be reached . |
| 23 | If imports account for close to 50% of UK sales in those sectors , a 10% devaluation would directly raise the RPI by around 2% over a period of , say , one to two years . |
| 24 | By around 1700 grave-clothes changed , probably as a result of the influence of the soft-goods trade in ready-made items , and adopted a form which was to last for the next seventy-five years . |
| 25 | BMW saleswoman Elaine Fountain at Cooper Reading says scrapping the tax has cut the price of an average BMW by around £700 . |
| 26 | She emerged into the autumn sunshine to be swamped by around 100 cheering Korean children desperate to see her . |
| 27 | Gold and cash reserves fell by around £2 billion as a result of the sterling crisis . |
| 28 | If all goes well this could boost its sales by around £2 million a year . |
| 29 | Prices were down by around 50% by comparison to two years ago in the hope of moving stock : Willy d'Huysser from Belgium , for example , with a very fine choice of works , offered a Jannis Kounellis sculpture of 1976 for FFr850,000 which he had failed to sell at the Salon de Mars in Paris last year for FFr1.2 million . |
| 30 | Less than 40% of the country 's £500m annual expenditure is reckoned to be channelled into Scotland 's domestic industry , a proportion that the Forum intends to increase by around 50% . |