Sentence examples for at a target about from inspiring English sources

A popular attraction in the Streets of Paris at the Chicago World's Fair is a concession, where for 10 cents you get three baseballs to throw at a target about the size of a dinner plate.

The Army is investigating what went wrong at the sprawling base near Watertown early this morning, when an artillery company began firing 105-millimeter shells at a target about five miles away.

Dr. Roach, who conducted the research as a graduate student at Harvard, and his colleagues there used motion-capture video to analyze the throwing motion of 20 college athletes, who hurled baseballs at a target about 100 feet away, with and without a brace that restricted shoulder motion.

The bad news is that the smaller number of attacks in 2013 resulted in more damage — about 814 million data records were exposed during the year (including the credit card you used at Target), about twice as many as in any other previous year on record.

He stopped at a Target store about an hour north of Houston to pick up the pasta ingredients.

The final match Saturday had 15 rounds, with each competitor shooting twice in each round: metal-tipped arrows launched at a wooden target about the size of a fire hydrant and set in the ground more than 450 feet away.

In one notable experiment, two groups of boys practiced throwing darts at a target placed under about a foot of water.

Since then, it's picked up loads more venture capital (about $91m in total) to produce its mass-market product, due sometime in 2014 at a target price of about $300.

Auchentaller began by taking a fresh look at every movement the athletes made as they switched from cross-country skiing to shooting — a crucial moment in the race because the competitors must lower their heart rate and get into position to take five shots at a target that is 50 meters (about 164 feet) away.

At a Target store in West Hollywood, about 10 minutes after the 8 a.m. launch of the retailer's much-anticipated 3.1 Phillip Lim collection, many of the roughly 150 shoppers who had waited in line in the wee hours were still milling about the already stripped racks.

Maricela Flores, a 43-year-old immigrant from Mexico, was so unhappy at her job as a janitor at a Target store just outside Minneapolis – unhappy about having to work seven days a week, about being paid $8 an hour, about not having health coverage or paid sick days – that she did something unusually risky.