Example sentences of "around the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This The Waste Land did , but when Eliot writes elsewhere that any modern poet who applied himself to the drama would be an extremely conscious poet , using the historical imagination , it is clear that around the time of The Waste Land he was also considering writing plays . |
| 2 | Earlier that year , at around the time of the drafting of the play , Eliot had invited Jane Harrison to contribute to the Criterion . |
| 3 | Such reminiscence of childhood presented at once as reality and illusion came frequently to Eliot around the time of his conversion . |
| 4 | My father 's nightly trips across the river were usually to the Colbert in Sheffield [ built around the time of Pearl Harbour , half a block from the Ritz , today a parking lot ] and the Tuscumbian [ built in 1950 , a block from the Strand , today part of a bank ] . |
| 5 | They had a big hit around the time and the shop was always full of these kids who were really into that gay , shallow disco — stuff like ‘ The Hustle ’ . |
| 6 | And occasionally , as , for example , during or around the time of the rebellion led by Tupac Amaru II in 1780 , an image would appear of explicit resistance to colonialism . |
| 7 | Normally ( see Fig. 3.2 ) cortisol is secreted mainly around the time of waking and this seems to be part of dealing with the ‘ stress ’ of waking up and preparing for the new day . |
| 8 | Turning her attentions to a community , Trotter Street , her two new books are about the arrival of a real baby around the time of the Street 's nativity play and the building of an extension on to the house of the boisterous Pattersons . |
| 9 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At around the time of the publication of the draft statutes for the proposed European central bank ( November 1990 ) , the Germans started calling for a quick move to a two-speed EMU , with only Germany 's immediate neighbours joining the ecu zone . |
| 12 | Director No. 62668 ‘ Jutland ’ enters Victoria with a local train from Nottingham probably around the time these engines were given a brief return to service from storage at Staveley in 1961 . |
| 13 | Around the time of Rudder 's comments , there were eight fulling mills at work within the parish . |
| 14 | Around the time of the First World War , Clark brothers ceased operations , and the mill finally fell silent . |
| 15 | Some of the lighter moments around the time of the release of Easy Rider and Nicholson 's coming-out party , provided contrasting and bizarre elements which were all relevant to the age in which he would become established as their hero . |
| 16 | The costs of children may be divided into direct costs — the outlay on the baby and mother around the time of birth , and indirect costs — the amounts foregone by mothers who take time out of paid employment , and who may return to work part-time and at lower rates of pay . |
| 17 | Such a situation existed in the Bosnian area of Yugoslavia around the time of the Second World War . |
| 18 | Around the time of ‘ My Favourite Dress ’ , Solowka and Gregory began to call Gedge The Boss in jest , but Charman refused . |
| 19 | The Anglo Scotia lace factory was built around 1870 — a Gothic four-storey building of extravagant design for such a purpose , with castellated turrets and parapet recalling some of the fortress-like factories put up around the time of the Luddite riots . |
| 20 | The popularity of cider seems to have grown up around the time of the Norman Conquest , and the best soil and climate for growing apples dictated that the south-west became predominant in cider-making . |
| 21 | Quite apart from the memory of the treatment Mrs Thatcher had dealt out to ‘ It Took a Riot ’ , around the time of the 1983 general election Heseltine was telling friends he was very concerned about an accretion of power to the premiership ( this was the period when the possibility of a prime minister 's department or , at the very least , a beefed-up Downing Street Policy Unit was being floated ) . |
| 22 | The principal carers were to be interviewed on two occasions , firstly at or around the time of the sufferer 's first interview and secondly a year later . |
| 23 | Tony took the overdose on Sunday night , at around the time when his father , his father 's girl friend and her son were due to come back from the pub . |
| 24 | Another clue comes from a paper by the Japanese psychiatrist Abe who has shown that the second twin is far more likely to develop the disease if they are living with an affected twin around the time of onset , as compared to the concordance rates for twins who are living apart . |
| 25 | Although serious research on the subject of mobbing did not begin until around the time of the Second World War , it has been known as a natural phenomenon for over 2,500 years . |
| 26 | Around the time of the renovations , there was some discussion on handing the school over to the state , but the management committee , headed by the rector , the Rev. Henry Moody , concluded : ‘ The time has not yet come … for the surrender of these schools and the forfeiting thereby of the gifts and labours of our forefathers . ’ |
| 27 | There is nothing anachronistic about the change of medium ; it was common around the time of the composition of these pieces to hear them transferred to instrumental groups . |
| 28 | I met King around the time of Running In The Family , the follow-up to the all-conquering World Machine . |
| 29 | Ken Davill , who has a patisserie in Ripon , makes Wilfrid pies for about five weeks around the time of the feast . |
| 30 | They usually struck once a month , around the time of her period , making it almost certain they were hormone linked . |