Sentence examples for fetched about a from inspiring English sources

Bedpans, for example, whether made of stainless steel or plastic, fetched about a quarter each.

A Lehman Brothers analyst told the Associated Press that the unit could bring fetch about $3.5 billion, assuming it had annual sales of $700 million and about $300 million in operating profit.

The sludge fetched about $300 a tonne.

Mr. Putin's first canvas, above, fetched about $1.1 million at a charity auction in St . Petersburgon Saturday, Bloomberg News reported.

Mr. Dario also sold a former BP Amoco gas station at 243 Meeker Avenue in Brooklyn for $1.2 million in 2004, when it might have gone for about $400,000 as a gas station, and a Sunoco gas station at 1729 Stillwell Avenue in Brooklyn last fall for $3.2 million, which might have fetched about $1.1 million as a gas station.

It fetched about $200,000 last year at an auction at Bank Leu in Zurich, Dr. Weiss said.

The funds pledged by Mr. Lloyd Webber were raised from the sale last year of a Picasso painting owned by the composer, "Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto (The Absinthe Drinker)," which fetched about $51.8 million with commission at a Christie's auction.

A year ago the shares fetched about 160p.

In the 1950s, he said, even a mint-condition Bugatti would have fetched about $2,000.

The painting, he said, could fetch about a million dollars.

As scrap, it might have been worth about £1,000, or about $1,587, he said, but as a complete watch it would probably have fetched about £4,000.