Sentence examples for granting about from inspiring English sources

She earned the sobriquet as a program director for the Ford Foundation from 1971 to 1981, granting about $5 million in seed money to a few dozen groundbreaking academic studies, sociological projects and statistical surveys that laid the groundwork for women's studies departments and public policy research programs across the country.

Usually everyone takes these things for granted about ballet.

And in 2011, the Tax Commission granted about $500 million in tax reductions.

The mayor's office expects to grant about that many permits this year.

Last month alone the U.S. Patent Office granted about sixty new toilet patents.

And Jennifer Coolidge, as Stifler's mom (laughter, please), is granted about 30 seconds of sultry vamping.

Granted, about 30 percent of Ohio voters who called themselves "very conservative" did choose Mr. Romney and that's not nothing.

They were in this highly disturbed state where everything they had taken for granted about the future no longer applied.

What do French newspapers "take for granted" about London's relationship with Washington, according to the article?

A cover, a title, binding and paper: these are things to take for granted about any book.

Yes, he agrees, all the things we take for granted about a family Christmas are a luxury.