'award about' is not correct and usable in written English.
Instead, you can use the expression 'award for.' For example, "The company decided to give out an award for the most dedicated employee."
My husband received a lifetime DLA award about 15 years ago.
The building's architect, Lord Norman Foster, above, will receive the £20,000 award (about $36,000).
Upstart hopes to award about 70 more grants this fall, and eventually turn itself into a broad nationwide business.
Taken together, community colleges award about 820,000 associate degrees or certificates annually.
I believe that Dave deserved to win the Kennedy Center award, about which he's made some funny deadpan jokes.
Goldman Sachs was tonight forced to defend its decision to award about 80 of its senior bankers free shares worth millions of pounds.
A separate USAid database shows the agency awarded about 14% of its mission funding through local organisations in 2012.
Ms. Tucker sued Mr. Phillips, and last year a Dallas County state district judge awarded her about $150,000.
From the awards: How about Martin Scorsese finally winning the director Oscar for "The Departed" in 2007?
Ms. Chisholm could be awarded about $400,000.
The Nobel Prizes are also awarded about this time.
