The phrase "acquaintances around the" is not complete and lacks context, but the structure is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to acquaintances in a specific location or situation, though it typically requires additional information to clarify the meaning.
Example: "I often run into acquaintances around the coffee shop near my office."
Alternatives: "friends in the vicinity" or "people nearby".
Like many others, with literally thousands of friends and acquaintances around the world, addressing my e-mail alone is a challenge.
"I'd spend every day, sometimes 20 hours, translating articles from German to Arabic," said Morad, who also had acquaintances around the city who would send him news tips they saw on the street.
Like us via our own senses, and with all our conversation exchanges and social acquaintances around...
I had dozens of friends and acquaintances who formed a frenzied around-the-clock social network, talking and texting all day, every day.
When they try (as Danny does) to communicate with acquaintances halfway around the world, they might as well be talking to the stars in the evening sky.
In any case they struck up an acquaintance, and around the time Hemingway settled in Cuba in 1939, he hired Fuentes as his boatman.
Another acquaintance walked around with a teaspoon stuck to her belly all day.
Most friends and acquaintances of around my age (I'm 73) are freelance and still working, or retired and working for free, for charities.
Perhaps I'll chicken out nearer the time, but that's what I feel like now, aged 74, as do many acquaintances of around my age, so it comes as no surprise that increasing numbers of ageing parents – half a million over the last two years – have created powers of attorney, to make sure they can refuse treatment when their illness becomes incapacitating.
They quickly have the body removed to the garage so as not to ruin the party by a corpse; after all, acquaintances have assembled from around the world.
It was Mr. Ali who recruited five friends and acquaintances living in and around the east and north fringes of London to make videos threatening martyrdom, filming them wearing black and white head scarves in front of a black flag with Arabic script and coaching them along the way.
