Sentence examples for destroy about from inspiring English sources

Elizabeth Olson (NYT) FRANCE, SWEDEN: CROP DESTRUCTION -- France and Sweden each ordered farmers to destroy about 1,500 acres of oil rapeseed.

At a news briefing, General Chiarelli said his troops discover and disarm or destroy about one I.E.D. in Baghdad for each one an insurgent detonates.

Oxfam will ask members of the group -- 40 major coffee importers and exporters -- to agree to destroy about 660 million pounds of the lowest-quality coffee sitting in the world's warehouses, a move that would cost about $100 million.

With the country awash in cranberries, the government has decided to force farmers to cut production or destroy about 15percentt of their crop this fall to winnow down the surplus and reverse a downward spiral in prices.

The hunt, which began on Aug. 20 and is scheduled to last through the end of September, is intended to destroy about 2,000 to 3,000 of the roughly 11,000 to 15,000 reindeer, and plans for the hunt are continuing.

The Long Island Pine Barrens Society, an environmental group in Riverhead, contends that this route will destroy about 100 acres of pine dd barrens, including 50 acres in the 54,000-acre core area where development or other disturbances were banned by a state law enacted nine years ago.

In East Haven, Conn., winds and waves destroyed about two dozen homes.

Alba Longa headed a Latin league of uncertain extent until destroyed about 600 bc by Rome.

The quake and ensuing mudslides killed at least 726 people and destroyed about 75,000 houses.

Israeli bulldozers destroyed about 600 acres of agricultural land in the Gaza Strip alone, according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.

Nationwide, Maemi destroyed about 5,000 houses and damaged 13,000 homes and businesses, leaving 25,000 people homeless.