Sentence examples for building for about from inspiring English sources

In 1997, the Jamestown Group, a German investment firm, bought the building for about $110 million.

Over the years he has sold most of the building for about $600 million and rents out the other apartments.

But state officials pressed forward, and according to a person familiar with the project reached a tentative agreement to buy the landmark building for about $230 million.

Gung Gung and his children, May Wong Lee and Warren Lee, bought the building for about $700,000 a dozen years ago from a Jewish family that had owned it for generations.

In Bethesda, health care officials are leasing more than 70,000 square feet of space on three floors of an office building for about 230 employees to work on rule-making and other duties.

Four weeks after the terrorist attack, Lehman arranged to buy the unfinished building for about $700 million and soon became the first major financial firm to abandon Lower Manhattan after 9/11.

Three years ago, Google increased its Southern California presence by opening a campus in Venice, where it leased 100,000 square feet in three buildings for about 600 employees.

The US Green Building Council reports that buildings account for about 36percentt of America's total energy use and emit roughly the same proportion of greenhouse gases.

Buildings account for about 40% of global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

Buildings account for about 40% of the EUenergy consumption and one third of the GHG emissions.

As buildings account for about 40%% of total energy consumption and emissions [1, 2], improving the energy behavior of their occupants is a key factor for achieving the desired climate and energy objectives.