Sentence examples for owned around from inspiring English sources

Buffett stayed mum during the financial crisis as Moody's (Berkshire owned around 19% of the stock at the end of 2007) handed out "AAA" ratings on junk bonds.

The sultan owned around 500 slaves.

They reportedly owned around 70% of the firm at the time of the takeover.

Lockheed shut down its Lake Success operation in 1998 as part of a plan to dispose of surplus properties that it owned around the country.

But, in the days that followed, Shrivastava's men raided half a dozen properties that Ghiya owned around Jaipur, his farm outside the city, and various godowns, or storage facilities, in Mathura and Delhi.

Pastor, 77, who owned around a third of property in Monaco and was worth an estimated €19bn (£15bn), was attacked as her Lancia Voyager car pulled out of the Archet hospital in the west of Nice on 6 May.

After all, the Botín family now only owns around 1.5% of the bank's shares.

Foreigners own 43% of all Treasury debt; official institutions, largely in Asia and in oil-exporting countries, own around $3.5 trillion-worth.

Today, female entrepreneurs own around 25% of all private enterprises in Vietnam, mostly small family outfits.

It said Shire investors would own around 30% of the combined group.

But would News Corp, which still owns around 39% of BSkyB, really want to risk rejection again?