Sentence examples for no 1 around from inspiring English sources

Could it be her song, Royals, storming to No 1 around the world last autumn, when 12 months earlier she'd been plain Ella Yelich-O'Connor, just another 15-year-old mooching around her cataclysmically uneventful Auckland suburb of Devonport?

In 1987 he achieves another No 1 around the world with, I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me), a duet with Aretha Franklin, and later that year he releases his first solo album, Faith, writing and producing every track himself.

The first single from Confessions was the daringly minimal dancefloor hit Yeah!, a collaboration with fellow Atlantans Lil' Jon and Ludacris, which hit No 1 around the globe and briefly made the hip-hop sub-genre crunk look like it was going to change the world of pop forever.

During his days as Scotland's scrum-half, he was one of the most incisive, innovative No 9s around.

It is also true that the outstanding No 9s around the world have a high work rate and aerobic capacity: a big engine, if you like.

His Gnossienne No 1, composed around 1890, has become a new-age icon.

She came on the No 1 bus around the New Kent Road with her toddler already having quite a tantrum.

Initially forming in 2001, the band, best known for their hit All Rise, have had more than 40 No 1 hits around the world and sold 15m records.

But when push came to shove they still lacked the absolute class purveyed by players such as New Zealand's Kieran Read, the best No 8 around bar none.

What's the point, he suggested, of sacrificing your life for politics if you're unlikely to get the keys to No 10? Around the same time, I remember a good Spanish friend of mine calling me from Madrid.

Setting emergency bus stop around the No 8. subway exit.