Sentence examples for because it was around from inspiring English sources

(He was spending a few sociable hours a week at a children's center chosen because it was around the corner).

I probably wound them up because it was around Christmas time last year and I wore a Christmas jumper and a Santa hat for a joke.

Whether this was because, as Trump posited, there were so many other celebrities around, or because it was around the time that Levitt was charged with wrongly taking five million dollars from a charitable foundation, is anybody's guess.

Spanier said that the staff member "was not sure what he saw because it was around a corner and indirect".... Spanier said he asked two questions: (i) "Are you sure that it was described to you as horsing around?" and (ii) "Are you sure that that is all that was reported?" According to Spanier, both Schultz and Curley said "yes" to both questions.

The General Synod debate seemed desperately naive to me because it was around a motion asking for robustness in preaching the compatibility of science and religion without any admission that the plethora of religions in itself renders the claims of all religions implausible and wobbly to most ordinary people – compared with the comparative coherence of what can be scientifically established.

Evaporation was neglected for short-term experiments because it was around 1 mm · d−1.

The string is to ward off the "evil eye", says Weston, and the water is "not snake oil, just plain water which hopefully has some energy because it's around good people".

EL NIÑO, a periodic sloshing of warm water from west to east across the Pacific, gets its name—"the boy child"—because it is around Christmas that it warms the water off Peru.

Ha! Yeah, Norm, probably because it's around 100 times more readable than anything you wrote and, half a century on, is still so fresh and resonant that Virago has just reprinted it with a new intro.

And you know, it's a great thing because it's around the time for graduation".

Once you're of legal age, it's not as enticing because it's around all the time".