Sentence examples for gallon around from inspiring English sources

Gas, always expensive in Europe, sells here for about $8 a gallon, around 20 percent more than in 2009 because of tightening market supplies and the new tax.

Owners say the cars get as little as 3 miles per gallon around town and rarely more than 15 per gallon on the highway.

I had just read a commemorative newspaper article about it, written on the occasion of prices reaching $4 a gallon around Memorial Day.

"If you can afford to buy an H2, if you get 10 miles to the gallon you're not going to care," said Bill Kramer, a 51-year-old computer programmer from Long Island whose H2 actually gets about 9 miles a gallon around town.

The GT Speed is said to get 12 miles per gallon around town.

It goes, naturally, into casks, or firkins, if you want the British word for a container of 9 imperial gallons (around 11 U.S. gallons).

"I thought, if a gallon costs around $1.50, they'd charge maybe $1.75 -- not three times that," said Mr. Burritt, who travels nearly 40percentt of his workweek.

TransCanada shut down a portion of its highly contested Keystone Pipeline, which transports oil from the Canadian tar sands to refineries in the U.S., at 6 a.m. on Thursday after 210,000 gallons, or around 5,000 barrels, of oil spilled across South Dakota farmland.

Bodybuilders usually carry around gallon jugs full of water for a reason: you have to stay extremely well hydrated to get in shape.

In case you were wondering, it gets about 11 miles per gallon driving around the neighborhood, and less than that out on the track.

They drive just 9,000 miles a year on average, so fuel for the Escaper, which gets eight miles per gallon, runs around $3,400 a year.