Sentence examples for abandoning about from inspiring English sources

Clear's spiffy blue and white kiosks had expanded into more than 20 airports before it shut down abruptly in 2009, abandoning about 150,000 members who had paid up to $199 for their annual ID cards.

Truth is, what is really going on is the creation of new "digital dead zones" where the companies are planning on abandoning about 50percentt of all customers who use the state-based utility wires -- the PSNIT -- the Public Switched Network Infrastructure & Technology (a term that includes all wires, network switches, technology and includes the PSTN).

According to them nothing is wrong, even though AT&T and Verizon combined have about 9 million customers using U-Verse or FiOS TV -- out of 120 million households that's only 7.5percentt -- or that they are abandoning about half of America.

David Brooks writes that the "core educational principle was abandoned about a generation ago".

His car, the keys still inside, was abandoned about 12 miles away.

This is real architecture, meant to last for centuries though it was abandoned about 75 years after it was built.

This 15-foot-long Chinese Buddhist prayer book, printed in 868, was abandoned about 200 years later in a cave in northwest China.

This ambitious project, which might have rivaled Ghiberti's doors for the Baptistery, was abandoned about 1460 for unknown reasons (most likely technical or financial).

Because of the vogue for porcelain, stoneware manufacture declined in Germany in the 18th century and was finally abandoned about 1730.

These buffalo, the remnant of a privately owned herd abandoned about two months ago by a rancher in trouble with the law, were not exactly ideal guests.

The marines machine-gunned and destroyed a car belonging to a suspected suicide bomber, which had been left abandoned about 50 yards from an American checkpoint.