Example sentences of "[prep] around the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , much of the film has dated badly , by comparison with the better American films of around the same time ( Wild River , Psycho , The Hustler , El Cid ) , or to put it more neutrally appears less attractive than it did in its own time . |
| 2 | A man of around the same age was squatting down in front of the TV set , belatedly fumbling to turn down the volume ; he was in his underwear , and was as pale as lard . |
| 3 | A real roach , not one of the roach-bream hybrids of around the same weight the mere began throwing up in numbers later . |
| 4 | It 's certainly an anomaly that two players dealt with around the same time end up serving their bans well apart . |
| 5 | A report from around the same time which reached the London bureau of the Neu Beginnen organization , based on conversations with an elderly , formerly active member of the SPD , living in a central German city , painted a similar picture of opinion . |
| 6 | It 's also a mite expensive , although you should bear in mind that retail prices are deceptive things ; the chances are that after a period of high demand and correspondingly high prices , the cost of the SRV will settle down to around the same as the Clapton Strat . |
| 7 | If you look through a family history and hit upon an advantageous marriage , the chances are that you will find a new house or a completely restored one at around the same date . |
| 8 | Tacoma 's own programme had to survive a court challenge at around the same time . |
| 9 | The shift from an above-it-all ‘ objectivity ’ to an open confession of partisanship took place in Britain too , at around the same time . |
| 10 | Accor , a hotel group , took the Motel 6 chain off the hands of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts ( which had bought it a year earlier in an LBO ) for FFr7 billion at around the same time . |
| 11 | For Adorno ( as , at around the same time , for Clement Greenberg ) , the ‘ genuine ’ avant garde , represented most emblematically in his writing by his teacher , Schoenberg , was the last vestige of ‘ authentic art ’ whose difficulty and inaccessibility were the marks of its unassimilable difference and its negation of bourgeois rationality , capitalist purposiveness , and what Peter Sloterdijk would later call ‘ cynical reason ’ . |
| 12 | Matty runs into small problems with Dave from within the department , who claims to have booked two sun-kissed weeks in Miami at around the same time . |
| 13 | At around the same time the advent of the contraceptive pill gave women freedom from the fear of pregnancy . |
| 14 | At around the same time , the issue of school closure was raised with the Regional Council , which decided that schools should be closed on educational rather than financial grounds . |
| 15 | At around the same time the Chairman of the Panel , Philip Cooper , suddenly resigned . |
| 16 | Little was known , either , about the families of fourteen children taken into care in Aberdeen at around the same time as those in Ayrshire ; they did n't look for publicity , speak to the press or generate such wide interest and public concern . |
| 17 | At around the same time , Orkney Islands Council officials made their first attempt to remove the Reporter to Orkney 's Children 's Panel , Mrs Katherine Kemp , from office . |
| 18 | Scot Colin Montgomerie 's wife Eimear is also expecting a baby at around the same time . |
| 19 | They were closely similar to cars supplied to Bath and the South Lancashire systems at around the same time , three windowed double deck cars with flat internal ceilings . |
| 20 | If the development of HDMAC and Divine continues on schedule , they are likely to make an impact on the market at around the same time , probably making HDMAC redundant from the word go . |
| 21 | On Thursday , 21 st December 1967 another ex-minister and colleague of Oscar Kambona who had left the country at around the same time returned to Dar es Salaam : the former Zanzibar Vice-President , Kassem Hanga . |
| 22 | At around the same time , after a number of bitter arguments , all the remaining women in the group left to join with women from Icebreakers to form Lesbian Line . |
| 23 | Since all the females in a group tend to come into oestrus at around the same time , the male goat will have a busy two or three days . |
| 24 | At around the same time , the first 66MHz versions should begin to trickle out and the company says that we should also expect a Pentium-based desktop machine in the ErgoPro range . |
| 25 | At around the same time , the first 66MHz versions should begin to trickle out and the company says that we should also expect a Pentium-based desktop machine in the ErgoPro range . |
| 26 | The universities are not formally sub-divided , but informal groupings based on origin and type distinguish between Oxbridge ( Oxford and Cambridge ) , the large federal university of London founded in the early nineteenth century , the larger ‘ civic ’ universities established later in the nineteenth century in provincial cities ( e.g. Manchester , Birmingham , Leeds , Bristol ) , the smaller civics such as Exeter , Hull or Leicester , the ‘ new ’ universities founded ab initio in the 1960s , such as Lancaster , Essex and Sussex , the ‘ ex-CATS ’ such as Aston , Salford and Bradford , which were upgraded from Colleges of Advanced Technology at around the same time , and the Scottish , Welsh and two Northern Irish universities . |
| 27 | At around the same time , the effects were being felt of a new system ( introduced by the government in 1995 ) of individual budgets for each prison — in effect cash limits on what can be spent on staff in each prison — which has also been blamed for giving rise to understaffing . |
| 28 | At around the same time Colonel Stephens started to broadcast news from London . |
| 29 | At around the same time , Michael Blumenthal , the Us treasury secretary , visited him while on a swing through the middle East in search of petrodollars for investment in the states . |
| 30 | He was staying there since giving up his flat at around the same time he had given up Crystal Daly . |