Example sentences of "around the city " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pubs around the City have a booming lunchtime and early evening trade but usually close around eight or nine at night . |
| 2 | Heavy fighting was also reported around the city of Khost . |
| 3 | General Ulomi said that as more powerful rockets were provided to the guerrillas , so the Afghan army is extending its security perimeter around the city . |
| 4 | However , many travellers have set up more fixed camps around the city , which does not have an official site . |
| 5 | Mr Phillips said : ‘ We have 13 areas in and around the city that travelling people have started to use . |
| 6 | Cuckney challenges the view that there are vast sums of money locked up in pension funds floating around the City that could be diverted towards helping struggling small firms to grow . |
| 7 | Helicopter trips around the city are fascinating and great fun ; they are an integral part of daily patrolling of the British Sector . |
| 8 | Posters have appeared around the city giving the wrong date , time , and place , and the central committee secretariat has written to every Communist Party organisation in the country criticising the Union of Democratic Forces . |
| 9 | Late last night , Tass reported that bursts of automatic fire were heard all around the city as ‘ several tens of thousands of people ’ gathered on Bucharest 's University Square . |
| 10 | While senior members of the party and government hold a series of meetings around the city , the Stefan the Great Movement for National Revival is holding what it calls a ‘ great gathering ’ in the main stadium . |
| 11 | Then I strolled around the city for a couple of hours , knowing that Dana would not be awake before noon . |
| 12 | Their presence is still obvious around the city , in statues and monuments , in buildings used by them and restored for other purposes now , and at the church they attended , St Paul 's in the Jewellery Quarter . |
| 13 | A marvellous selection of transport museums with cars , trains , motorcycles and aeroplanes , in and around the city , bears witness to this tradition . |
| 14 | Even the canals were not the last protective ring around the city , the ramparts or Spanish walls being built — between 1549 and 1561 — in a circle a few metres outside the waterway circle . |
| 15 | During the Archbishopric of San Carlo Borromeo , a man we shall meet several times on our walks around Milan , the Nail was processed around the city at the height of an outbreak of plague , with immediate results . |
| 16 | Previously , most local grain was ground in the many small mills around the city and outlying areas . |
| 17 | After two years he had half-a-dozen going concerns all around the city . |
| 18 | This sounds like an idle life I know , but these long hours of staring were no more idle than Boy 's long journeys around the city on foot had been aimless . |
| 19 | There are lots of spots close together around the city centre , then many more close by in a car . |
| 20 | Here and there around the city . |
| 21 | He also raided the villages around the city itself , carrying off cattle and prisoners . |
| 22 | The job involved being in charge of ‘ country correspondents ’ in villages scattered within 25 to 50 miles around the city , editing their weekly contributions , measuring their column-inches for payments and generally supervising the rural aspect of the newspaper . |
| 23 | Some of the drovers , usually employed in the Cattle Auction Marts , were well plied with beer and in no time were leading processions of small and some not so small children around the city , processions which seemed mainly to support the Conservative cause . |
| 24 | He was furnished with a big drum and plenty of liquid refreshment meant that before long he not so much marched as fell around the city . |
| 25 | We lined up behind old ‘ Beachie ’ as he was known and off we went around the City streets . |
| 26 | In the ‘ twenties the list of protected birds was small and this gentleman , Mr. Thomas , did quite a trade in song-birds which he used to catch on the downs around the city . |
| 27 | An illustrated lecture by Dr John Shannon OBE , Chairman of the York Civic Trust , examining the architectural details of York — gleaned from 30 years of walking around the City . |
| 28 | Golfers , with bags of clubs over shoulders , boarded tramcars which would take them to many of the numerous golf-clubs in and around the city . |
| 29 | From this viewpoint we can see that , although the centre of Funchal is very built-up , there is still a lot of green land around the city . |
| 30 | Unaware he had obtained a new exit visa , Pyle waited till the following morning , then asked his bank staff in the Dharram office to check around the city and find out what Laing was doing there . |