Sentence examples for grounds was about from inspiring English sources

What went on down in the hollow of the hallowed grounds was about as great as it gets, a sort of Saturday version of the final-round 65 shot by a 46-year-old Jack Nicklaus when he won his record sixth green jacket in 1986.

The boat trip to the fishing grounds was about 35 minutes.

The surprising strength and location of last month's Fukushima earthquake highlighted how poorly seismologists can predict when the ground is about to shake cataclysmically.

The Merion grounds are about half the size of a 21st-century United States Open location.

(Most of the plant grounds are about 30 meters, or 98 feet, above sea level, but the reactors are on a lower shelflike area, 10 meters, or about 33 feet, above sea level).

Michael Murray-Fennell, a spokesman for English Heritage, said the total cost of the project (which also includes restoring the facade of the mansion and rooms in an 18th-century dairy on the grounds) is about $8 million.

The ground was about 5 feet down.

So, while the speed of sound on the ground was about 761 mph, the speed of sound up at 100,000 ft was about 690 mph.

With a book, you have to figure out what to prolong and what not to". Still, he admits, "Wrestling a novel to the ground was about 100 times harder than I expected.

The strongest ground motion recorded was about 1590 gal in Mashiki Town.

The maximum ground motion recorded was about 1791 gal in the town of Ozu.