Example sentences of "around the time of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father 's nightly trips across the river were usually to the Colbert in Sheffield [ built around the time of Pearl Harbour , half a block from the Ritz , today a parking lot ] and the Tuscumbian [ built in 1950 , a block from the Strand , today part of a bank ] . |
| 2 | The last of the mines had been closed around the time of Tace 's birth and the entrances to the shafts had been closed or blocked by rockfalls . |
| 3 | Some puppies , particularly around the time of teething , will start to play with your hand in their mouth . |
| 4 | This is a theme which appeals to children from five upward , especially around the time of Hallowe'en ( Oct 31 ) . |
| 5 | The costs of children may be divided into direct costs — the outlay on the baby and mother around the time of birth , and indirect costs — the amounts foregone by mothers who take time out of paid employment , and who may return to work part-time and at lower rates of pay . |
| 6 | Around the time of birth , oocytes enter the resting diplotene or dictyotene stage , where they remain until shortly before ovulation . |
| 7 | Around the time of Rudder 's comments , there were eight fulling mills at work within the parish . |
| 8 | A further five subjects ( four taking ranitidine , one proved to be achlorhydric by intubation studies ) collected urine specimens around the time of breakfast . |
| 9 | Around the time of Jesus 's birth , a militant , armed opposition to Rome was organised and led by a man who also claimed the title of Messiah . |
| 10 | Dr Dickson , on whose research our knowledge of the structure of debt holding depends , has analysed the pattern for Bank of England , South Sea , East India and government 4 per cent stock around the time of Pelham 's reduction of interest in 1749 – . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Normally ( see Fig. 3.2 ) cortisol is secreted mainly around the time of waking and this seems to be part of dealing with the ‘ stress ’ of waking up and preparing for the new day . |
| 13 | This means that for many of its black speakers as well as virtually all its white speakers , the London variety of Creole is something like a second language or dialect , learnt around the time of transition between childhood and adolescence . |
| 14 | After a lull around the time of Ter-Petrosyan 's negotiations in Moscow , on Aug. 19-22 there was a sudden escalation of armed clashes along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border , with regular Soviet troops fighting Armenian guerrillas who attacked villages inside Azerbaijan . |
| 15 | Moreover , the age-incidence curves for this group of diseases begin to flatten around the time of menopause . |
| 16 | Around the time of engraving ( late 1738 ) Bach undertook a large-scale expansion of the L scheme , adding the E♭ prelude and fugue ( themselves composed perhaps as early as 1735 ) and the manual catechism preludes . |
| 17 | This approach enabled us to evaluate UOS function under standard conditions with adequate control for the influence of level of arousal , and also provided the opportunity to analyse events around the time of occurrence of spontaneous episodes of gastro-oesophageal reflux . |
| 18 | Another clue comes from a paper by the Japanese psychiatrist Abe who has shown that the second twin is far more likely to develop the disease if they are living with an affected twin around the time of onset , as compared to the concordance rates for twins who are living apart . |