Example sentences of "[noun pl] the [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frequency of a sound is the number of times the air around the source vibrates each second . |
| 2 | The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began ! |
| 3 | It cropped up yesterday with the information that a positive mind shapes the world around us , preventing frustration and disappointment . |
| 4 | After four months the skin around the bolts became infected . |
| 5 | If you put a lump of matter into space , it distorts and curves the space around it . |
| 6 | From the seamless opening shot — which lasts eight minutes and has no cuts — the themes and characters of The Player are laid before us with masterful skills as Altman glides and circles the camera around a studio car park , catching snatches of information and fragments of conversation ( a film is being pitched with the description ‘ Ghost meets The Manchurian Candidate ’ . |