Example sentences of "[noun sg] around [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an hour or so of drinking , these two gentlemen decided they wished to go for an afternoon drive around the local villages — a motor car around this time still being something of a novelty . |
| 2 | Anchovies — an important source of protein for animal feed — also mysteriously disappeared from the Peruvian coast around this time . |
| 3 | The most noteworthy gale around this time was on the 5th when a severe southwesterly gale drove the powerless oil tanker Braer onto a reef in Quendale Bay , Shetland , as a television audience of millions held its breath . |
| 4 | Could there have been an epidemic of some kind in the village around this time ? |
| 5 | Elsewhere in the District around this time , a gap between the resignation of one full-time officer and the appointment of another provoked distress and urgent resolutions to the District Council . |
| 6 | I can remember one morning around this time bringing Lord Darlington coffee in the breakfast room , and his saying to me as he folded The Times with some disgust : ‘ Frenchmen . |
| 7 | But this is not to deny his achievement , which was fairly clearly founded on political , military , administrative and diplomatic skills of a high order , and his own sense of it is indicated by his adoption around this time of a crown modelled on that worn by the German emperors . |
| 8 | The grant was part of a consolidation of Gloucester 's position around this time , which may have been linked with plans for Gloucester to lead a raid into Scotland . |
| 9 | The grant was part of a consolidation of Gloucester 's position around this time , which may have been linked with plans for Gloucester to lead a raid into Scotland . |
| 10 | Alterations in class composition around this time may have to some extent re-ordered the direction of artistic patronage . |
| 11 | In another case around this time we can see how different newspapers use familiar but different tags to identify a particular ‘ sex beast ’ . |
| 12 | Gloucester also employed Kelsale on another sensitive task around this time , sending him to Beaulieu abbey in case the marquis of Dorset should seek sanctuary there . |
| 13 | Gloucester also employed Kelsale on another sensitive task around this time , sending him to Beaulieu abbey in case the marquis of Dorset should seek sanctuary there . |
| 14 | The rate on the free market around this time fluctuated between $1.00=2.6 cruzados and $1.00=3.2 cruzados . |