around 5pm vs around at 5pm

The correct phrase is "around 5pm." The addition of "at" before "5pm" is unnecessary and incorrect in this context.

Last updated: March 30, 2024 • 9133 views

around 5pm

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to indicate an approximate time, usually within a range of a few minutes before or after 5pm.

Examples:

Let's meet around 5pm for dinner.
The event starts around 5pm.
I usually leave work around 5pm.
She arrives home around 5pm every day.
The store closes around 5pm.

around at 5pm

This phrase is incorrect in English. The use of both "around" and "at" together is redundant and grammatically incorrect.

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I'll go to the print shop, you go back to your flat and we'll be spontaneous around, say, 5pm.
Sailing for Shanghai at 5pm this afternoon.
EP President Hans-Gert Pöttering will make a statement on this topic at the opening at 5pm on Monday.
At 5pm, I'll tell the family.
He kidnaps the girls at 5pm.
He kidnaps the girls at 5pm.
Here are directions to dinner at 5PM sharp.
I need you to come here every Monday at 5PM to get spiritual help.
Mr Bretherick, where were you at 5pm yesterday afternoon?
According to the report from the private jet that took off at 5pm, he went to New Caledonia.
We'll be shutting off your water and power at 5pm today due to an eight-month overdue account.
A gunfight erupted... at Tin Chong Street at 5pm today
At 5pm on Tuesday 9 March, Commissioner Viviane REDING will make a statement on the new generation of education and culture programmes.
Says he will prove it by performing a miracle at 5pm.
At 5pm every evening you must eat and then go straight to bed!
At 5pm, the Commission will make a statement on its modified proposal on the directive on free movement of services and will also make a statement on the posting of workers directive (96/71/EC).
EP President Hans-Gert Pöttering will make a statement on this topic at the opening at 5pm on Monday.
At 5pm, the Commission will make statements on its modified proposal on the directive on free movement of services and the posting of workers directive (96/71/EC).
For Mr Okada, at 5PM, English tea with a hint of milk.
The plenary opens on Monday at 5pm with MEs giving their reaction on the forest fires in Greece, their consequences and conclusions to be drawn for prevention and alert measures.

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