Sentence examples for had stopped around from inspiring English sources

I tried hard to stop thinking about the turbulence and focus on the in-flight movie, and it must have worked because when the credits started rolling two hours later, I was horrified to realize that we were still holding hands as we droned our way across the Atlantic, particularly as the turbulence had stopped around an hour and a half ago.

I was terrified, it felt like time had stopped around us.

The curators could easily have stopped around 1945, but in a riskier move they chose to bring Cézanne into the postwar period, all the way up to the present.

None of them offer anything nouvelle - their gastronomic clocks appear to have stopped around 20 years ago.

It is almost as if time has stood still, the clock having stopped around the time Blondie was singing 'Sunday Girl'.

The age-old practice appeared to have stopped around the middle of the 19th century, possibly with the introduction of Christianity, according to the study.

But as for me, the chemical processes Professor Stein talked about, which turn fleeting bits of information into long-term memory, had stopped working around noon.

The park's fauna, it seems, had stopped moving around.Dr Freund believes that what animals sense before earthquakes is airborne electric charge.

Persons working in the neighborhood said that it had stopped there around 12 40 P.M. and that three or four men had got out of it and walked toward Gravesend Bay.

The water would exert less pressure on the oil and gas down below, which is why it was important that concrete seals were in place to avoid any blowout.Anthony Gervasio, an engineer on the supply ship into which the drilling mud was being pumped, testified that on the night of the disaster they had stopped work around dinnertime, after getting 3,100 barrels of mud stored away.

The fans who stuck around had stopped booing LeBron when he touched the ball, hoping perhaps at the end that the score might stay close enough for him to make an honest try at fifty points.