Sentence examples for amongst around from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "amongst around" is not correct and usable in written English.
It appears to be a combination of two separate prepositions that do not work together in this manner.
Example: "The children were playing amongst the trees."
Alternatives: "among" or "surrounded by".

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Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition, said he had spoken to a number of asylum seekers detained in the centre, who confirmed the outbreak amongst around 100 detainees.

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When sociology professors Elizabeth Armstrong and Laura Hamilton conducted an intensive, landmark five-year study on college students – by living amongst, following around and interviewing students in one dorm at an anonymous Midwestern public university – they reported that two women living on their floor were sexually assaulted at fraternity parties within the first few weeks of the semester.

UNICEF has also procured 60,000 litres of bottled water and 20,000 biscuits for under-5 children to be distributed amongst the around 3000 refugees sheltered at the Kawargosh transit site near Erbil.

Overall these eight clinics look after around 200,000 patients, amongst which around 20,000 have diabetes.

A fourth, somewhat more biological, posits that lavishing time and money on a few children, rather than spreading it around amongst many, produces adults who do better in the next-generation reproductive stakes.

This man is a horror walking around amongst us.

YouTube will never get tired of smiling African children, particularly when a girl who looks like the flute chick from American Pie moonlighting for an NGO is in amongst them joking around and holding on to their shoulders.

In modern Western culture, the elements of a "good death" include, besides freedom of pain, death at home with the family members being around, amongst others also the element of "awareness".

Hot Potato was an idea that came out of our experiences in baseball around aggregating audiences and facilitating interaction amongst people around sporting events.

"The trees grew up in and amongst and around them".

"His offense is probably the best amongst catchers around the league," Johnny Damon said of Posada.

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