Sentence examples for contest for about from inspiring English sources

Sony's entertainment division, which bought ten-year broadcasting rights to the contest for about $1.6 billion, expects its advertising revenues to grow by 20% next year.

Exhibits and sales of prize doves, and a cooing contest for about 1,500 dove fanciers from Thailand and neighboring countries.

Trenton Oldfield stopped the contest for about half an hour on 7 April.

We'll run the contest for about two weeks then they'll pick a few winners at random.

This may be the high point of her career, but she has been singing in public -- on the street, in musicals, in concerts, in talent contests -- for about as long as she can remember.

TIMES SQUARE POETS The Poetry Society of America and the Times Square Alliance recently sponsored a contest for poems about the crossroads of the world.

Mr. Kurtz was also a vocal critic of a contest for cartoons about religion that included some entries that could be considered deeply offensive.

Having slid out of the playoffs, the Jets are now trying to win some sort of contest for whining about one another, with The Daily News reporting that several unidentified Jets want quarterback Mark Sanchez traded.

In a precocious accomplishment more typical in other neighborhoods, Mr. Hernandez had won a screenwriting contest for a film about obesity that had already made its debut on the Showtime cable channel.

What the Philadelphia contest was about was jockeying for position in the lineup.

But the decision this week to reschedule the contest for Jan . 14raised suspicions about one of the candidates.