Example sentences of "[noun] around [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The joke around at the time was that it would be filmed with a hand-held camera . |
| 2 | Had n't Naylor Massingham been the only other person around at the time of that incident ? |
| 3 | There was nobody else 's staff around at the time . |
| 4 | In many cases the actual amount of information given in the recalls was minimal , limited to whether a subject had to wait at the junction and whether there was other traffic around at the time . |
| 5 | The same applies to Eckhard Pfeiffer , who has certainly turned Compaq Computer Corp around for the time being , but has not been in the job long enough to demonstrate proven staying power . |
| 6 | The guitars also had some of the thinnest necks , the lowest , fastest frets and the best vibratos around at the time . |
| 7 | The new interpretation seems to push Hallucigenia , the Chinese fossils , and some other species around at the time ( including another of the Burgess oddballs , Aysheaia ) into the arthropod phylum , with insects , crabs and trilobites . |
| 8 | He despised homosexuals , and although there were plenty of other sexually depraved aristocrats around at the time , he was unfortunate enough to have married into a family ( the Montreuils ) who had strong court connections , and it was they who made sure that he was jailed , partly to get him off their backs ( so to Speak ) and partly as an example to others . |
| 9 | Since 15 million years is a very short period in terms of evolution , we have to conclude that there were some big whales around at the time of the catastrophe . |
| 10 | There were quite a lot of drugs around at the time and somehow or other , I did n't quite know how , I managed to scrape enough together to feed my children and keep my flat going and just keep my life ticking over . |
| 11 | Hence there were a considerable number of able and committed prophets around at a time when the gospel they were spreading — a gospel of modernity — was one which their auditors were anxious to hear . |
| 12 | He had been shooting since he was about five years old ; there were few clubs or competitions around at the time but the Scorton was one of the leading ones . |
| 13 | In anyone 's book that is failure of some magnitude , but the fact for English cricket was simply that there were very few players of real Test class around at the time ; after all , when Mike Gatting , one of the best of the county captains , got his chance he won only twice in twenty-two Tests . |