Sentence examples for capital about from inspiring English sources

The suicide bomber approached the main gate of Camp Phoenix, located on Jalalabad Road, a busy highway in the eastern part of the capital, about 4 45 p.m. and detonated the explosives in his Toyota minivan.

"It's our state capital, about 130 miles up the river".

The plans for Wuhan, a provincial capital about 425 miles west of Shanghai, might seem extravagant.

The team is based in Taiyuan, the province's capital, about 250 miles southwest of Beijing.

In Skopje, the Macedonian capital, about 10,000 Albanians marched for peace.

The main international airport is at Entebbe, Uganda's former capital, about 20 miles (30 km) west of Kampala.

The city is linked by bus and rail with Santiago, the national capital, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast.

More services are found in neighboring New London, and Concord, the state's capital, about 25 miles away.

The first kings came from the hills northwest of Dorasamudra (present-day Halebid), which became their capital about 1060.

There, the helmsman turned the round bow eastward, toward Benghazi, the Libyan rebel capital about 300 miles away.

Last year the country secured only $60m in foreign capital, about half the amount of the previous year.