Sentence examples for herd about from inspiring English sources

None have died in a storm since the mayhem of Ash Wednesday 1962, when half the herd — about 50 horses — perished.

I WOKE this morning to a radio news item about a proposal to build Britain's biggest dairy farm, a "super-farm" which would be home to more than 8,000 cows a herd about 60 times larger than the British average.

It is his job to herd about the country a score of highly spirited, highly individual artists, whose colors range from light beige to a deep, blue black, whose tastes range from quiet study to explosive conviviality, and whose one common denominator is a complete disregard of train schedules.

After herding about 250 people for about half an hour (the curve at the top of the 2 was particularly tricky to get right), we got the shot.

For the past 40 years, she worked on a dairy farm and an agricultural station outside Beijing, tending a herd of about 200 cows.

To make a profit, Mr. Smits said he needs a herd of about 120, a goal he hopes to reach before 2015.

Jim Pascale, the township administrator, said that last year, sharpshooters working for a private contractor reduced the township's deer herd by about 322.

The current herd of about 700 is descended from 177 Rocky Mountain elk that were released by the state game commission from 1913 to 1926.

In February, the House passed a bill that would sustain the herd at about 120 and allow the importing of new mares from Shackleford for an introduction of fresh genes.

Ruminating about a herd of about 300 of the ruminants, which were eating on a hillside beside a soccer field, Jane Greenfield, 49, a clinical social worker in Oakland, said, "They are part of our cultural diversity".

If you are in good health and averagely diligent about hygiene, you will have a herd of about 1 trillion bacteria grazing on your fleshy plains.