Sentence examples for designed to hold about from inspiring English sources

Italy's prison population, as of last week, was 63,710 in structures designed to hold about 43,000.

The country's thirty facilities were designed to hold about fifteen thousand inmates but house three times that many.

The prison muster has eclipsed 5,500 inmates for the first time, in a system designed to hold about 4,500, according to the union.

The plan for sealing the borders, dated Oct. 22 and signed by Bulent Ecevit, who was then prime minister, envisions the establishment of 18 camps -- 12 of them in Iraq -- designed to hold about 275,000 refugees.

And Wandsworth prison has nearly 1,600 inmates in cells designed to hold about 900.

The facility was designed to hold about 3,000 centrifuges and was believed to have achieved full capacity earlier this year.

The SRS is a concrete-faced (upstream face), rock-cored, earthen dam about 550 m long, 56 m high, 21 m wide at the crest, and has a 122-m-wide armored spillway; its upstream catch basin is 13 km 2 in area and was designed to hold back about 200 million m 3 of sediment (USACE Portland District, unpublished data).

In 2006, the new indictment alleges, Huang Zhenyu began "to perform programming work for SOE-2, including the creation of a "secret" database designed to hold corporate 'intelligence' about the iron and steel industries, including information about American companies".

The database is designed to hold clinical annotations about patient progress and can perform multiple data analyses.

California's prisons now hold about 155,000 inmates, about twice the number they were designed to hold.

"The law was designed to hold Mr. A, the material witness, to testify about a crime committed by Mr. B, the suspect," he said.