Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] around [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , girls who marry or begin sexual congress before or around puberty tend to experience a longer interval between marriage or conjugal union and first birth than do their counterparts who marry later . |
| 2 | Coach Mike McClennan admitted : ‘ With all the tough games to come before and around Christmas , it 's a real setback . |
| 3 | The fundamental model is the physical sciences , but in the current transactions and debates in and around English , social studies offers a closer and more approachable example . |
| 4 | There had been a lot of activity in and around Brigade H.Q It appears that the enemy in front of the Commando positions has started to pull out , possibly due to the Allied advance in the Caen area about ten miles from here . |
| 5 | Occasions for such testing occur , for example , during police v. football fan conflicts in and around soccer grounds , in the editorial comments of the media , on the streets and in the classrooms where , whatever teachers may intend , their actions are interpreted as contempt . |
| 6 | In Britain the ‘ Beltane ’ fires , supposedly named in honour of the sun god Baal , were recorded in the Celtic fringe of Scotland and Wales and were lit earlier , on or around Walpurgis Night , or on May Day . |
| 7 | John Strype , the eighteenth-century antiquarian , gives an account of the care given to the corpse of Henry VIII immediately after his death at Westminster on or around midnight on 28 January 1547 . |
| 8 | There is a category of exempted minor works such as the erection of fences or walls on or around property , provided they do not exceed two metres generally or one metre adjoining a highway . |
| 9 | Maturation of these arrested larvae seems to be linked with the breeding cycle of the host and occurs at or around parturition . |