Example sentences of "around the earth [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ash cloud has been moving around the earth at 75 mph at an altitude of about 15 miles up in the stratosphere . |
| 2 | He denied the Aristotelian claim that all motion requires a cause and in its place proposed a circular law of inertia , according to which a moving object subject to no forces will move indefinitely in a circle around the earth at uniform speed . |
| 3 | Most ozone is generated above the equator , where the sun 's radiation is strongest , and then carried by stratospheric winds around the earth towards the poles . |
| 4 | Large particles will fall out within a few hundred kilometres of the detonation site ( the local fallout ) while smaller particles and gaseous radionuclides injected into the troposphere may be transported around the earth in the same hemisphere and between hemispheres by , for example , the East African low-level jet stream ( Findlater , 1974 ) , to be deposited hundreds or even many thousands of kilometres away ( the tropospheric fallout ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , in the play , Puck the fairy is supposed to say he 'll put a girdle around the earth in forty minutes — ’ |
| 6 | That light travels at the speed of five times around the earth in the time it takes to say rice pudding is indeed an amazing matter . |