Example sentences of "around the middle " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't do that , because unless everyone is identical , the average will always be somewhere around the middle . |
| 2 | One of the chief glories of this house is that it has been little altered since it was built around the middle of the sixteenth century . |
| 3 | However , you do not need to invest in expensive gadgets in order to find if you are fat around the middle : sit down on a seat , relax , do not pull your tummy in , and pinch the fat just above your waist . |
| 4 | Around the middle of the fourth century Christians seem to have observed these traditional festivals along with their own ; some ancient celebrations kept their appeal for centuries . |
| 5 | Potatoes had become the staple food around the middle of the 18th century ( relegating the traditional oatmeal to second place ) , and the results of the outbreak of potato blight in 1846 were only slightly less terrible than those of the much better-known one in Ireland the year before . |
| 6 | On the outskirts of Nailsworth is Egypt Mill , which first appears in the record books around the middle of the 17th century , when it belonged to a London haberdasher , George Hudson . |
| 7 | Freames Mill is first recorded around the middle of the 17th century , when it consisted of a fulling mill and possibly a corn mill . |
| 8 | The little Spring Mill was built around the middle of the 19th century . |
| 9 | Around the middle of the 19th century , they were still the owners , their tenant being Mr J. Perry . |
| 10 | Around the middle he started to string the birdies together and there was no holding him then . |
| 11 | It was from a rather combative chapter somewhere around the middle of ‘ Wimbledon in the Ninth Century after Christ ’ . |
| 12 | Around the middle of August , we became aware that one very special operation was about to take place . |
| 13 | The MIDRIFF STRETCH is especially good for eliminating a spare tyre around the middle and also helps to straighten out a double chin ! |
| 14 | Dr Margaret Ashwell told the conference that the worst form of middle-age spread was around the middle as the traditional beer-belly shape meant more fat was concentrated where it does most harm — around the internal organs . |
| 15 | There are good reasons to expect the recovery will begin around the middle of this year , although initially it may be slow . |
| 16 | Taligent Inc , the Apple Computer Inc-IBM Corp venture devoted to building an object-oriented operating system environment plans to deliver a complete 32-bit object-oriented operating system around the middle of 1995 and will be looking well beyond its masters ' horizons for custom . |
| 17 | LANDesk/OpenView for Windows is planned for release around the middle of this year , and is to be co-branded for joint marketing by the two companies . |
| 18 | The Data General , Santa Cruz , 88open and RS/6000 versions will appear first , around the end of April , with ICL following around the middle of the year . |
| 19 | Taligent Inc , the Apple Computer Inc-IBM Corp venture devoted to building an object-oriented operating system environment plans to deliver a complete 32-bit object-oriented operating system around the middle of 1995 and will be looking well beyond its masters ' horizons for custom . |
| 20 | In contemporary political debate it is ‘ Victorian values ’ which are presented as the high point of family responsibilities , implying that Utopia existed somewhere around the middle to end of the nineteenth century ( West , 1984 ) . |
| 21 | He sees a movement away from a situation where there were extensive kin ties but a lack of really close relationships in the conjugal family , through the emergence of a family based on the patriarchal authority of the father , to a dominant form of family life which began to take shape around the middle of the seventeenth century , and was characterized by close emotional bonds between parents and children and a strong sense of privacy in the nuclear family household . |
| 22 | This is not only extremely difficult to do , she says , but unnecessary , as fat which is concentrated around these areas is less of a health risk than fat which tends to concentrate around the middle . |
| 23 | From around the middle of May he began to order the confiscation of the family 's land , although there were no legal grounds for its forfeiture . |
| 24 | Around the middle of the third millennium it was featuring strongly among the grave goods deposited in the Early Dynastic Royal Cemetery at Ur ( Plate D ) . |
| 25 | Around the middle of 1969 I had been asked by the Jockey Club whether I would join the board of United Racecourses , for one reason and one reason only : in order to keep the peace between the Jockey Club and Lord Wigg . |
| 26 | One shows drapery-folds stacked in a way , based on observation , that becomes regular in Greek art around the middle of the second half of the century , but it is almost impossible to believe that the original date of these carvings is so late . |
| 27 | At one time the cards had been relegated to a storeroom to await incineration , but power strikes around the middle of the decade had left the facility without any index at all . |
| 28 | ‘ They 've put Charles on to inspiring Donne , ’ explains Prue to the people around the middle of the table , ‘ because he did so fantastically well with Yeats . ’ |
| 29 | But broadly speaking the tendency around the middle of the century was toward a more motet-like treatment of the parts . |
| 30 | Despite the absence of any traces of body or coffin ( apart from some nails in the fill ) in the central pit , the whole monument would appear to be the probable grave — or cenotaph — of an important official which was erected sometime around the middle of the second century . |