Sentence examples for called up about from inspiring English sources

Gallup knocked on the door of or called up about a thousand adults in each country.

"One member of our board called up about eight of his friends and raised $380,000.

"He was in the same situation, called up about the same time, and played in a big city," Wright said.

The governors of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi have called up about 10,000 members of their National Guards and are expected to mobilize more, the Pentagon said.

"I called up about five or six attorneys I knew, and nobody knew about it.

"They called up about four people this morning, and that's it," Jesenia, a 24-year-old El Salvadorian, told me last Thursday evening, as her son slumbered on the floor and her daughter grabbed onto her leg.

Village cut-ups call up about his horse; pageant-minded ladies urge him renact the Paul Revere ride around April but he pays no attention to any of them.

Each day one of his employees has to call up about a dozen customers to nag.

In other words, the IRS can't always guarantee that it's you calling up about your tax affairs or logging in to the website.

For example, you could be working on journal A when an editor calls up about the next issue of journal B, or the printer discovers a problem with journal C (which is already running late).Or somebody from marketing wants to discuss a promotional leaflet when your boss decides she wants a report on publication time scales.

The calling up of about 220,000 military reservists for the war in Iraq seems to have contributed to the recent job losses, the Labor Department said.