around the time
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I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock.
We intend to release Leopard at the end of 2006 or early 2007, right around the time when Microsoft is expected to release Longhorn.
When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.
Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.
I think by around the time I was about 8 or 9, the idea of filmmaking probably took hold. I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the first being my own version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' and where I played all the parts except for Juliet.