Sentence examples for about a would be from inspiring English sources

On similar grounds, Gorr also requires that "it is not the case that Q desires that P not bring about A solely because P's bringing about A would be incompatible with P's bringing about some other state of affairs the obtaining of which Q does desire" (Gorr 1986, 388).

As Uhl's daughter, Frida was admitted to the theatrical salons of Berlin and Munich, where she hung about, a would-be journalist, and tried her hand at a play or two before meeting Strindberg early in 1893.

Writing a story about a cat would be like writing a story about my arm or my ear.

A metric ton is about what would be released as a car burns 113 gallons of gasoline.

If it came about, this would be a reversal of practice.

(About a quarter would be offered admission).

Of those left uncovered, about a third would be illegal immigrants.

We assume here that the time spent on thinking about a post would be proportional to the post length.

The council said the job cuts equated to one in six staff and about a third would be senior managers.

The Conservative-controlled council said it equated to one in six staff and about a third would be senior managers.

Just getting together an hour of stuff to talk  about would be a lot of work.