kolem in English:

It's half past eight.

During the past several years, many Japanese have been either killed or injured while traveling overseas.

She was born just a generation past slavery. A time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky, when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons: because she was a woman, and because of the color of her skin.

I travelled to Tokyo right away; it was past noon when I saw my uncle.

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It is the border-line cases that are always in danger: the dignified buildings of the past which may possess no real artistic or historic value, but which people have become sentimentally attached to and have grown to love.

The example is a past progressive tense sentence. How was everybody taught when they were learning about progressive tense?

The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that they propose things altogether different than what had been thought.

As I glanced at the street there was somebody looking down at me in the middle of those walking past each other.

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

To keep holding the barrier up is just to wait for death! So we're going to go out past the wall and counter attack the enemy, you ready!?

Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners of it.

So you think it was John who stole my wallet?. "I don't know, but I wouldn't put it past him."

Freddy's been working the graveyard shift the past month, so he hasn't been able to see any of his friends who work normal hours.

: THE old lady took slow, careful steps past my window and stooped, reverently setting down a small basket of freshly folded leaves outside the door.

Turn around.

You can't just come in here and start ordering people around.

Doesn't it irritate you to see couples making out around town?

Company attorneys are working around the clock to complete the merger.

She advised him to take a long holiday, so he immediately quit work and took a trip around the world.

Blind people sometimes develop a compensatory ability to sense the proximity of objects around them.

There were many things that we wanted to do, but we never got around to doing many of them.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Ecology is the study of living things all around us.

Jingle Bells, a popular song around Christmas time, is not really a Christmas song. The lyrics say nothing about Christmas.

Taking no notice of the people around them, the boys talked loudly to each other.

I'll be sticking around town all summer. I just don't have enough money to go anywhere.

Don't read evil intentions into the ordinary actions of people around you.

Make your airplane reservations early since flights fill up quickly around Christmas.

I looked around and noticed that mine was the only car on the road.