Example sentences of "at around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At around the 5ft height there are two options , bushes or cordons . |
| 2 | Earlier that year , at around the time of the drafting of the play , Eliot had invited Jane Harrison to contribute to the Criterion . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Tacoma 's own programme had to survive a court challenge at around the same time . |
| 5 | The shift from an above-it-all ‘ objectivity ’ to an open confession of partisanship took place in Britain too , at around the same time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At around the time of the publication of the draft statutes for the proposed European central bank ( November 1990 ) , the Germans started calling for a quick move to a two-speed EMU , with only Germany 's immediate neighbours joining the ecu zone . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Studies reveal that people asked to rate their own abilities on a scale of 1–100 pitch themselves at around the 55 mark . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A path leaves Horton railway station , a large quarry giving an industrial background to the first stage of the climb which continues to rise along the geological fault of Sulber Nick to come alongside the Allotment wall at around the 1300-ft contour . |
| 12 | Tony took the overdose on Sunday night , at around the time when his father , his father 's girl friend and her son were due to come back from the pub . |
| 13 | It results in very rapid weight loss in most cases and generally the weight stabilises at around the ‘ ideal ’ level . |
| 14 | At around the same time the advent of the contraceptive pill gave women freedom from the fear of pregnancy . |
| 15 | At around the age of forty-six the attacks became more intense and , by the time I had reached the age of forty-eight they were a fortnightly affair and almost unbearable . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The neck joins the body at around the 16th fret , making access to those all important top frets rather awkward , to say the least . |
| 18 | Randy Hansen 's stage show is an extension of what Jimi Hendrix was doing at around the time of Woodstock and the Isle Of Wight festivals . |
| 19 | At around the same time the Chairman of the Panel , Philip Cooper , suddenly resigned . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Observers reckon that 52% of the company , currently in the hands of Maxwell 's administrators , will be sold to institutions at around the 125p mark . |
| 23 | Scot Colin Montgomerie 's wife Eimear is also expecting a baby at around the same time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | All too soon , the finest rocky clough in the Dark Peak levels out at around the 1500 feet contour and falls back at an easy angle towards Shining Clough Moss and Bleaklow Head . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | City expects reckon full-year profits will emerge at around the Pounds 280m level , against £192m last time . |
| 29 | Far , far more recently , at around the time when the Roman Empire was at its height , the Celts across Europe enjoyed a ‘ confederation ’ of which signs can still be seen today . |
| 30 | 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 . |