Meanings of consume around in English

They consume around 34 kilograms of shoots, vines and leaves each day.

Irish people consume around a billion pints of beer a year.

LEDs, made of diodes or chips, consume around a fifth of the energy used by incandescent bulbs.

The plant itself would consume around 100 MW, leaving 400 MW to be sold into the UAE's power grid.

Thais on average consume around 25 litres of beer per year, while people in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia drink 30 litres.

Peruvian companies consume around 12,000 tons of refined lead annually, according to SNI, to manufacture products such as paint, plastics and piping.

South Africans consume around five billion litres of booze a year and the average South African chugs around 10 to 12.4 litres a year.

Treasury says that inflated prices and fraud from suppliers consume around 40% of the state's entire R600 billion budget for goods and services.

Turning a lever to start his groundwater pump, Abbasi recalls how the 20-horse power engine used to consume around 13 liters of diesel each day.

For the 61-year-old, his day revolves around a single six hour "eating window" between 1pm and 7pm, where he will consume around 2500 calories.

In the UK alone we consumed around one billion chickens in 2012.

Poland consumes around 16 billion cubic metres of gas annually.

China currently consumes around $15 billion a year worth of Australian coal exports.

Bosnia consumes around 350 million cubic meters of gas annually, most of it from Russia.

Another thriller involved standing in a flaming tar-barrel until it was entirely consumed around him.

China, the world's largest steelmaker, consumes around half of the world's iron ore production each year.