Sentence examples for collapsed about from inspiring English sources

Kazakhs were a minority in their homeland.When the Soviet Union collapsed, about 800,000 ethnic Germans and more than 1m Russians left the newly independent Kazakhstan.

The blasts collapsed about a dozen homes into piles of brick.

As he later wrote, "The whole romantic structure of fallacious beliefs, already rocking dangerously, collapsed about me, leaving me dazed".

Eight Belles collapsed about a quarter-mile past the finish line with broken ankles in her front legs.

His father was the chief executive of U.S. Technologies, an Internet venture company that collapsed about a decade ago.

The original entrance to the cave had collapsed about 30,000 years ago, sealing off the contents.

The political parties collapse about us, one rent by quarrels, the other stumbling leaderless.

Allow dough to rise at room temperature until it begins to collapse, about 2 hours; longer rising times (even overnight) will not harm dough.

Why did the towers initially withstand the impacts of jetliners without tipping over like felled oaks but then collapse, about an hour later, in two deadly implosions?

According to Nateghi-A (2001), a 0.35 g scenario in Tehran would collapse about 640,000 domiciles out of 1,100,000, and about 1,450,000 people would be killed, and about 4,330,000 would suffer injuries.

The receptacle collapses about 24 hours after its initial eruption from the egg.