Example sentences of "around the time of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They usually struck once a month , around the time of her period , making it almost certain they were hormone linked . |
| 2 | Both Willibrord , English apostle to the Frisians , and Wynfrith , were consecrated bishop by the pope in Rome and were given the names of Roman martyrs whose feasts fell around the time of their consecration : Willibrord Clement and Wynfrith Boniface . |
| 3 | No fathers were monitored for exposure at around the time of their child 's conception , or in the four years preceding their child 's conception . |
| 4 | In many respects you are only being asked to do what ought to have been done around the time of your last birthday . |
| 5 | It was no great shock , therefore , when around the time of my nineteenth birthday , the police informed me she was in hospital again . |
| 6 | Such reminiscence of childhood presented at once as reality and illusion came frequently to Eliot around the time of his conversion . |
| 7 | Jaggard is best remembered as joint publisher and printer of the First Folio of Shakespeare ; printing was completed in late October or early November of 1623 , around the time of his death ; he is named in the colophon , but the title-page ( probably printed last ) names Isaac , who on 4 November became printer to the City of London ‘ in the place of William Jaggard his late Father deceased ’ ( Guildhall records : Letter Book JJ , fo. 51 ) . |
| 8 | De Klerk 's action in freeing Mandela at this time , after years of international pressure for his release ( particularly around the time of his 70th birthday in 1988 ) was seen as an acknowledgement of the urgent need for the government to open negotiations with legitimate black leaders , in response to the ANC 's Harare Declaration of August 1989 when it set out its own proposals for political change in South Africa [ see p. 36837 ; see p. 37176 for recent communications between Mandela and de Klerk on this issue ] . |