Sentence examples for favour about from inspiring English sources

Cask wine lost favour about the time Australia was trying to be a bit posher.

The name St. Michael's Town came into favour about 1660 and remained in use into the 19th century.

When introspection fell out of favour about 100 years ago, the alternative approach adopted was exactly this approach.

The matter was eventually settled in court, where a judge ruled in Carte's favour about two years later.

The publicity worked in the film's favour, just about, though with lingering sympathy for Jennifer Aniston.

Factional squabblings were glossed over for as long as the Soviet Union existed, and economic growth allowed the LDP machine to spew favours about.

His contemporary, Walt Whitman, wrote of the ideal he called "higher progress", in other words the liberation of human beings from wage slavery in favour of lazing about and reading books.

For instance, being decked by a woman because you ignored approximately eight obvious social cues in favour of standing about, nodding intently but emotionlessly, like a cat watching a pigeon through a window.

Newbies, do us a favour: think about it for your next box set.

What he saw ashore did not predispose him to favour anything about the Soviet system and he was one of the earliest, though at that stage silent, sceptics about "our gallant ally".

"As road users, we think segregated cycling is the way to go," he said, adding that taxi drivers were in favour of about 90% of the cycle superhighway, although they were troubled by sections of the Embankment.