Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [was/were] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under it , major changes in reserves would have created an overwhelming presumption that a change in the exchange rate was around the corner , and thus encouraged speculation on what was in effect a certain bet . |
| 2 | IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum . |
| 3 | Poldhu Cove was around the next corner . |
| 4 | Yet I gather that Mr Muggeridge was around the school in the grounds tonight . ’ |
| 5 | Any involvement in the race issue was around the anti-Fascist campaigns of that time . |