The phrase "assortment of around" is not correct in standard written English.
It can be used when describing a variety of items or options that are approximately a certain number or quantity.
Example: "The store offers an assortment of around twenty different flavors of ice cream."
Alternatives: "variety of approximately" or "selection of about".
Then, the next day, Russian planes began bombing an assortment of targets around Syria, and the death toll rose again.
Because of their salaries, the Wizards are almost unable to trade them or put a nice assortment of players around them.
The festival opens tomorrow with Fiction Night, an assortment of readings around downtown Manhattan with different pairs of writers, including Martin Amis and Norman Mailer, Salman Rushdie and Jhumpa Lahiri, Ann Beattie and Richard Ford, Peter Carey and Annie Proulx, Junot Díaz and Nathan Englander, and Walter Mosley and Marisa Silver.
On the flight home to Tel Aviv, Kotler sees a cosmopolitan assortment of passengers around him and finds in this diversity a "model of coexistence", but the scene includes no Arab faces.
Although without its own art museum, Columbia manages to display its excellent collections in an assortment of galleries around campus, including the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery in Schermerhorn Hall, where an enlightening architectural exhibition "Percival Goodman: Architect, Planner, Teacher, Painter" has just opened (through March 31).
"Man, they really hit on something with this Starbucks, didn't they?" Jerry Seinfeld says, sipping on the first mocha latte of his life and glancing around at the assortment of Upper West Siders clustered around the small tables.
What you'll need a bizarre and eclectic assortment of stuff from around the house.
A diverse assortment of families wandered around the place, which felt trapped in time.
If I were one of them, I'd be pitching an assortment of experiments, centered around two core realities of what the Post is and what it can be.
Now in its second year, the show, in which an assortment of trains chug around the 12 indoor-outdoor acres of the Everett Children's Adventure Garden, prompts youngsters to ask "What If I Were (insert name of living object here)?" and to conjure the appropriately decorated home.
