Sentence examples for year around the time from inspiring English sources

Burns had composed it in the summer or autumn of the previous year, around the time of Muir's trial.

Every year, around the time of Ms. Horne's birthday, which was yesterday, the foundation presents recent winners and honored guests in a joint recital.

Abbado fell ill once more last year, around the time that the Italian president Giorgio Napolitano made him a senator for life.

He said that he used cocaine, sometimes with marijuana, for about a year around the time of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper" album in 1967 but eventually decided, "Mmm, this is not so cool an idea".

What exactly are we expected to make, for instance, of her feelings about Wuthering Heights, a book that Ellis reads every year around the time of her birthday in homage to its centrality in her life, a book "I think about, one way or another, every day"?

Once a year, around the time of Afia Olu, the Igbo new yam festival, my father, who is a knight of the Catholic Church, "sacrifices" a chicken to his ancestors so that – in his own words – they too might enjoy it like the ancestors of those who still do things "in the old way".

Yet grass is a newcomer by botanical standards; it only came to dominate the northern hemisphere in the last 12,000 years, around the time homo sapiens arrived on the plains of North America.

About 26 percent of total adult bone is accrued in two years around the time that bone mass increases the most — at age 12.5 in girls and 14.1 in boys.

The Princess of Wales was involved with Khan for two years around the time of her divorce from Prince Charles and is said to have considered converting to Islam in order to marry him.

The result was more party control, more back-room deals, and political blood sport like intimidation, bribery, and power plays that even left one position open for two years around the time of the Civil War.

The Twitter account it once used for status reports has not been updated in more than three years, around the time that WhatsApp agreed to be acquired by Facebook in a deal eventually valued at $22 billion.