Sentence examples for erected about from inspiring English sources

The castle, ruins of which remain on a rocky headland near the cathedral, was erected about 1200 as an episcopal residence that was commissioned by Bishop Roger.

I have lived here my whole life, but that hell hole was only erected about 6 or 7 years ago!

At the southeast corner of the Agora, a handsome library was erected about ad 100, the gift of one T. Flavius Pantainus and his family.

Omri's reconquest is known from the Moabite Stone, a stela that the Moabite king Mesha erected about 40 years later in the city of Dibon (modern Dhiban, Jordan).

Newcastle-under-Lyme takes its name from the new castle erected about 1145 by Ranulf de Gernons, 4th earl of Chester, in the proximity of the Lyme Forest.

The building was erected about 100 years ago to house the Chemists Club, and many of the turn-of-the-last-century touches have been preserved.

"You've got a president who's out there lying about why these monuments were erected," said Ganapathy.

The next big fight was about an illegally erected seventy-foot flagpole and a massive American flag.

Ms. Suchada spoke to a crowd of about 2,000 people from a stage erected by government supporters outside Parliament.

Cape Elizabeth contains two historic lighthouses Portland Head Light (erected 1791) and Two Lights (erected 1828; replaced 1874).

Martin and Grube also point out that this stela was erected exactly 83 Tzolk'in, or about 59 years, following the death of Itzam K'an Ahk I, a former ajaw of Piedras Negras who lent his name to Itzam K'an Ahk II, insinuating some sort of "special link" between the two rulers.