The phrase "aid about" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to indicate assistance or support in regards to a particular topic or issue. Example: "The government has allocated funds for aid about disaster relief."
In return France provides Togo with almost a third of its aid, about $60m a year.
Many doubt whether all the aid about to flood in from overseas will reach the people who most need help.
But he also said the amount the United States spent on aid, about 0.1percentt of national output, was tiny.
He said he sought a hearing aid about three years ago when he was given command of the Queens division of the Internal Affairs Bureau.
One of the largest cuts would result in New York City's losing its entire allotment of direct state aid, about $302 million.
The university feared that openly defying the federal court could cost it $45 million annually in federal aid, about 15 percent of its budget.
I hope so because that is what I'm telling these unemployed and under-employed former students who drank the Kool-aid about a college education that I served them when I was their teacher.
Program… and I sort of want to drink some Kool-Aid about it to be motivated myself to get them in" (MD 7).
If unofficial transfers were counted, Finance Minister Saifur Rahman has said, they would substantially reduce the country's reliance on foreign aid -- about $1.4 billion a year.
Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the Democratic whip, said he would support as much as $9 billion in aid -- about what industry officials have been seeking.
The reason is that most state aid -- about $7.6 billion of the total $13.7 billion education budget in the current year -- is "categorical aid".
