The phrase "carton about" is not a grammatically correct construction in written English.
A more appropriate word to use could be "filled with" or "containing." Example: The package I received was a large carton filled with various books and magazines.
The Graphic Packaging Corporation, formed by a merger last year of two packaging makers, will close two folding-carton plants, eliminating about 400 jobs, to cut production expenses.
Cartons costs Dunaratne about $110 when he picks up his shipments in Brooklyn.
Sticking with eggs, how about that carton which describes the hens as "free roaming"?
He sells only about three cartons every two days, however, and a pack of Newports in his 300-square foot store, which stocks the standard fare of snack foods, drinks, and household items, costs $12.25.
Cigarettes ordinarily sell for about $80 a carton in New York City, he said.
Mr. Spota said a nine-month investigation found the defendants buying vanloads of cigarettes at the reservations on eastern Long Island for about $20 a carton and reselling them at about $52 per carton.
The text-heavy box it came in told the predictable organic stories -- about the chicken (raised without chemicals and allowed "to roam freely in an outdoor yard"); about the rice and vegetables (grown without synthetic chemicals); even about the carton (recycled) -- but when I got to the ingredients list, I felt a small jolt of cognitive dissonance.
Gov. Ruth Ann Minner of Delaware has proposed a 26-cent-a-pack increase, but even that would leave a widening differential with New Jersey, allowing New Jerseyans to buy a carton of Marlboros for about $25 rather than $50.
We watched a bleached blonde slide off her barstool, and as her escort gallantly rose to take her home, the bartender handed him a carton of lettuce, iceberg, about 10 heads.
