Sentence examples for it spends around from inspiring English sources
Starting in 2009, the firm began to pour a lot of money into digital advertising, and today it spends around 25% of its $1.1 billion advertising budget online.
At present the Wellcome Trust says it spends around 90% of its annual research budget in the UK, but Walport stressed the charity's global reach.
Its authors two consultants and an academic historian convey the astounding scale of the company's operations: it spends around $5 billion a year on advertising alone, about the same as the total turnover of the online retailer Amazon.
For example, 8x8 Inc., a company that sells an unlimited Internet telephone service called Packet8 for $20 a month, figures it spends around $7 a month per user to connect calls.
"The private and charitable sector fund in the UK because we have a good partnership with government," said Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust, a biomedical charity that says it spends around £600m a year on research.
Thames Water says it spends around £1m every month clearing blockages from its sewers in London and the Thames Valley – an average of three fat-related blockages every hour.
When Verizon acquired its stake two years ago, it spent around $159 million, which valued the business then at the $650 million price point, or double its valuation at the time Hearst invested in 2014.
Porsche accumulated €9bn of debt in its controversial attempt, which saw it spend around €23bn on stake building.
In 2013, it spent around eighty million on personnel (both staff and consultants) and twenty million on office space, travel, and meetings.
It spent around $1m there in 2014 and currently prioritises the South Sudan education and peace building programme, which aims to raise $2.3m to improve education for tens of thousands of children.
The Obama team has not disclosed how much it has in the bank, though it is substantially less, mainly because it spent around $120m in negative adverts in swing states over the summer attempting to define Romney as elitist, uncaring businessman.
