Sentence examples for reckoned around from inspiring English sources

He reckoned around a third of deposits which fled the country have now returned.

The trial will cost the defendant, it is reckoned, around $15m.

This ages-old European festival (from a time when "summer" was reckoned around an older agricultural calendar) is a major holiday in Sweden, nowadays celebrated on the Friday nearest the solstice.

The rather sickly-sounding Global Angels reckon "around 1 million".

It reckons around 200 people die each year on cruise ships.

Today the provincial government reckons around 130 gangs with 100,000 members operate in the Western Cape.

Sainsbury's reckons around 15 per cent of shoppers end up suffering credit card interest charges by not signing up for a 0 per cent deal.

I reckon around 185 would be enough, which means 25 from Dirk Nannes' four overs and 10 an over from the rest.

The police reckon around half of the treasure was melted down and turned into jewellery, or sold back to bullion dealers Johnson Matthey, who owned it in the first place.

Since the costs of stabilising carbon dioxide concentrations by switching to alternative fuels are, most economists reckon, around 1% of global output by 2050, it might be worth doing something about climate change even on the basis of those figures.But rich countries tend to do relatively well from those forecasts.

But using census data on race and religion, and questionnaires issued to mosques, Kevin Brice, a researcher at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, reckons around 5,200 Britons turn to Islam every year, bringing the total number of converts to about 100,000.Proselytising has little do with it.