Example sentences of "[verb] around the earth " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind swirls around the Earth and its magnetic field , triggering spectacular aurorae . |
| 2 | You know , big thing up in the sky , whirling around the Earth . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Meteosat is in geostationery orbit 22,000 ft above the Greenwich Meridian and NOAA 6 is a polar orbiter going around the Earth once every 90 minutes . ’ |
| 5 | Because the Moon revolves around the Earth , the lunar day — the time it takes for the Moon to appear at equal heights above the horizon on successive occasions — is longer than 24 hours . |
| 6 | The ash cloud has been moving around the earth at 75 mph at an altitude of about 15 miles up in the stratosphere . |
| 7 | It is a shrinking resource badly distributed around the earth 's crust , as yesterday 's warning of a continuing severe shortage in the south of England reminds us . |
| 8 | It is a shrinking resource badly distributed around the earth 's crust , as yesterday 's warning of a continuing severe shortage in the south of England reminds us . |
| 9 | It was once considered obvious that the earth was flat and that the sun went around the earth , yet since the time of Copernicus and Galileo , we have had to adjust to the idea that the earth is round and that it goes around the sun . |
| 10 | Thousands of them looked down now as something round and shiny drifted around the Earth . |
| 11 | A magnetometer , detecting changes in the magnetic fields arising from charged particles deflected around the earth , measures the effects of corpuscular and non-corpuscular radiation emanated from the sun during solar flares and other events . |