Sentence examples for cities were about from inspiring English sources

French history is full of violent changes in government, not least the French Revolution, and current politicians can remember 1968, when some thought that student protests in Paris and other cities were about to force President Charles de Gaulle to resign.

The two cities were about the same size and served the same religious, political and agricultural functions.

As many people have pointed out over the years, the most obvious comparison among major US metro areas is between Boston, still relatively traditional in urban structure, and Atlanta, the Sultan of Sprawl; not long ago the cities were about the same population, although Atlanta is growing much faster.

But in December Meredith Whitney, one of Wall Street's most respected analysts, went on television and declared that American cities were about to default on their bonds to the tune of "hundreds of billions" of dollars in 2011.

Hoping to cash in on the rush to CO detectors, Lee scheduled a large secondary stock offering in 1994, but had to pull it after the Wall Street Journal questioned claims that a number of cities were about to make CO detectors mandatory in residences.

It turns out that all of the cities were about equally smooth.

But smart cities are about more than just making money, Hirshberg believes.

A taxi from the old city is about 5,000 pesos; admission, 13,000 pesos.

Yet the authors nevertheless conclude that bed capacity in the city is "about right".

The total population of the old city is about 5,000.

Fuck this guy, this is not what this city is about, I thought.