Sentence examples for expanding to about from inspiring English sources

To drive growth, the company moved aggressively overseas, expanding to about 15,000 restaurants outside the United States today from about 3,000 a decade ago.

Starbucks intends to open 20,000 coffee shops overseas while expanding to about that number at home.

But when it comes to expanding to about 25 a club of 15 members that is using institutional machinery designed for just six, it is clearly time to re-examine the rules.

Dr. Sewell said New Mexico planned to immunize just 120 people in the first round, gradually expanding to about 12,000, a process that could take six to nine months.

Begun as a pilot project by the foundation affiliated with the company's Sabritas snack foods division, it is expanding to about 850 farmers to develop a local source of sunflower oil, which the company needs to improve the nutritional quality of its products.

Below the confluence with the Lower (Nizhnyaya) Tunguska River, the valley widens to 23 miles (37 km), expanding to about 93 miles (150 km) wide around Dudinka and Ust-Port; the bed's width increases to 2,700 yards (2,500 metres) and then to 5,500 yards (5,000 metres); depths over the Yenisey's lower course range from 16 feet (5 metres) to more than 80 feet (24 metres).

When exposed to rain, the pellets expand to about four times their original size.

The film expands to about 250 cinemas from its second weekend, by far the widest play for a Leigh title.

Football Without Offsides has expanded to about 300 schools and 80 club teams in 120 German cities, Gebken said.

LearnVest currently has about 25 certified planners in 10 states and five time zones, with plans to expand to about 35 by the end of the year.

All-electric range is up to 50 miles, and with the gas engine, which acts as a generator and never turns the wheels, the range expands to about 250 total miles, the company said.