Sentence examples for Had begun around from inspiring English sources

When the voting at the Hollywood Palladium had begun around 8 p.m., indications were that the new contract negotiated by producers and writers would be approved by the membership.

Colin Dixon's own ordeal had begun around an hour earlier.

By Wednesday afternoon, sniper fire and Israeli shelling had begun around the Sabra and Shatila camps, and it was intensifying.

As a native and decades-long resident of Reykjavik, Lilja Palmadottir, 43, had begun around 2001 to feel suffocated by what she considered the provincialism of the city.

But by then, a fresh round of terror and intimidation had begun around the presidential campaign that would ultimately end all of Reconstruction.

A staphylococcal infection that had begun around a broken rib at least a week earlier had spread into her lungs and bloodstream, causing pneumonia and blood poisoning.

The new interventionism seems to have begun around 1979 as part of a proliferation of new ideas - devised theatre, documentary, attempts at new forms, physical theatre - that had their roots in the 60s.

The conversion of the savanna rangelands of Borana to bushland and cropland had began around the early 1970s due to the official ban of fire (Coppock 1994) followed by the expansion of bush encroachment and crop cultivation in the 1980s (Angassa and Oba 2008b).

Agriculture is thought to have begun around 8000 B.C., in the semi-arid mountains of Mesopotamia.

Tsarnaev's self-radicalisation appears to have begun around 2009 and 2010.

Actually, the play can be said to have begun around ten years before I started writing it, when I was still in college.