Sentence examples for has kept about from inspiring English sources

He has kept about his business, undaunted.

Ms. Royal says her operation has kept about 250,000 pounds of stuff out of the waste stream this year, but that's nothing in the grand scheme of things, and need we bother?

He has kept about two-thirds of the old selection, adding 50 or so poems and a small sheaf of the poet's rambling prose statements and reminiscences, some of which sound more like Ernie Kovacs or Lenny Bruce than the author of these insouciantly unserious poems (O'Hara loathed academic hauteur, though he needn't have sounded so oafish about it).

and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) introduced legislation yesterday [7/24] to fix a long-standing injustice in the way our nation counts homeless kids, that has kept about 900,000 children and families from federal assistance programs designed to help them.

That measure would've kept about 75,000 people from buying guns, the New York Times estimates, though people could have appealed their placement on the background check list.

I got a newspaper article that I had kept about a girl who bled to death while getting circumcised.

But in 1998, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represented the shipping clerks, complained in a lawsuit that the task force had stopped making payments and had kept about $1.5 million.

Under the new plan, the broker would have kept about 39percentt of the commission the client paid Merrill on that trade.

A Census Bureau report released on Tuesday found that the program had kept about four million people above the poverty level and had prevented millions more from sinking further into poverty.

But if he had persuaded the client to buy about 100 more shares, the broker would have kept about 43percentt of the larger commission, or about $30 more in this case.

Post-independence land privatisation resulted in small individual farms in Poland and Latvia while Estonia and Lithuania have kept about 20% of large private corporate farms (FAO 2002).