Example sentences of "[adv] around [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's only around school . |
| 2 | I suggest that the parties involved in the Darlington project visit York , in particular , a stretch of the ring road between the A19 and the A59 especially around 3–6pm . |
| 3 | Information is correct at the time of going to press , but museums may have to vary their hours from time to time and it is worth checking before a special visit is made , especially around Christmas , Easter and Bank Holidays . |
| 4 | By 1918 North Shields was a clear locale of modern organized capitalism with very large industrial establishments in Smith 's Dock and the docks of the Tyne Improvement Commission , with a highly organized capitalist class , particularly in shipping and in urban development , and with a working class organized around production in trade unions and reproduction through ad hoc organizations , especially around housing . |
| 5 | Cut panels squarely around door architraves , there 's no need to scribe to fit the profile as they 'll be covered by the flooring . |
| 6 | Dearlove 's study ( 1973 , ch. 8 ) of Kensington and Chelsea showed that the council 's response to groups revolved largely around councillor assessment of them . |
| 7 | I am not expecting the Test wickets to turn a lot — they did n't on the tour there in 1981-82 — and the current Indian attack is based more around pace than spin . |
| 8 | So those issues about ‘ blood ’ relations as ‘ natural ’ bonds have been dealt with in some grand , melodramatic way in the American soaps and are now also coming into the British soaps , in less melodramatic forms , but it 's significant that there 's a lot of concern , not around motherhood but actually more around fatherhood . |
| 9 | Or , to put it another way , the value may rise as functions become centred more around consumption and less around productive activities . |
| 10 | Such an occurrence happened to Mr R. J. Woodward of Ninckley and his wife and daughter when travelling home around midnight along the Watling Street ( A5 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ But more young people leave home around Christmas as the pressure of not having money to spend can become too much of a strain . |
| 12 | Although the gun works at a lower temperature than its counterparts , warm up time was still around average — five minutes from plugging in . |
| 13 | ‘ you come in ere half pissed once a month , usually around midnight , and expect me to jump around for you , now you 're bringing you mates as well . ’ |
| 14 | An illustration of such activity is where record collections are promoted ( usually around Christmas time ) through a series of single simple advertisements . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm still in America — and it 's just dawned on me that it 's probably around midnight where you are . |
| 16 | I assume even your second wife would be used to this sort of thing by now but I looked you up : you 've got a boy ant a girl both around college age and — ’ |
| 17 | After the necessary shunting the train returned eastwards around midday . |
| 18 | My days revolved inevitably around bathtime , nappy changes , feeds and my ‘ mothers meetings ’ as they became known in our household . |
| 19 | The loss of spontaneity and initiative may be accompanied by personality changes , anxiety and restlessness , particularly around tea time . |
| 20 | Segal never shirks fraught and controversial issues , even around racism , black and gay machismo , and pornography . |
| 21 | At the edge of her vision Isabel could see Ellen peering fearfully around fitzAlan 's arm . |
| 22 | They harvest currency by toiling silently before flickering screens , pressing keys like rosaries , or pushing papers ritually around office desks . |
| 23 | It will only come closer around dawn . |
| 24 | The only politics which I saw representing them are those organised by tenants and feminists campaigning primarily around housing , health and children . |
| 25 | THE MAN IN THE ATTIC began to move about again around mid-morning . |
| 26 | Go right around building and cross stiles east to Towednack Church . |
| 27 | It 's a sobering thought that in a million years or so , the Thames will break through somewhere around Poplar High Street and turn it into a proper island . |
| 28 | This traces the simulated lifetime earnings of a person who leaves school at age 17 and faces an earnings profile of ‘ average ’ shape , rising with age and experience until a plateau somewhere around age 45 for a continuous worker . |
| 29 | This was not the first time feminists had mobilized politically around religion , both to mount a searching critique of patriarchal society and to envisage more egalitarian forms of social organization . |
| 30 | Many issues came up curing this work — both day care in general and also specifically around day care for dementia sufferers . |