1.   And recent analyses indicate that such skirmishes were much more intense around the time the planets were forming.

2.   Bombing was particularly intense around Prizren.

3.   Fighting has been particularly intense around the rebel-held rail depot.

4.   Street fighting in recent days has been particularly intense around the station.

5.   A PUK spokesman said clashes were most intense around the mountains of Abed Sultan, which lie between Lake Dukan and Koysanjak.

6.   Clashes were particularly intense around the buildings of the pro-Moscow government, the epicentre of combat triggered by a Chechen separatist offensive on the capital Tuesday.

7.   Firecracker blasts lit up the Manila night sky and was so intense around midnight that it sounded like machinegun fire.

8.   Jovanovic said Croatian military activity had been particularly intense around the town of Osijek in eastern Slavonia.