Example sentences of "[prep] around the turn " in BNC.

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1 There will be a requirement to replace the type 42 destroyers from around the turn of the century .
2 The inner ring comprised the older areas built up to around the turn of the century , which because of their high density and lack of open space required ‘ decentralizing ’ , involving 415,000 persons .
3 Modernism always had an irremediably alien air about it , having reached England at around the turn of the century in the hands of immigrants : Conrad from Poland , Eliot and Pound from the United States , Wyndham Lewis from somewhere vaguely transatlantic .
4 Funds raised from the sale of the posters will be applied towards the restoration project being run by the Society and this poster will enhance any railway station scene being created for around the turn of the century by U.K. based railway societies .
5 we 're talking about around the turn of the century ?
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