Sentence examples for instrument about from inspiring English sources

On the faded lid, two children are poised over the instrument, about to go where no musician has gone before.

The same painting shows a craftsman with a blowpipe in his mouth holding a small object over a fire with a tweezer-like instrument about eight to 10 inches long.

The new instrument, about the size of a large phone booth and weighing 800 pounds, will take over many observing duties from the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, which will remain on the observatory until replaced by another device in 2004.

As Leonora, Zvetelina Vassileva has an attractive instrument about one size too small, but shows little to no interpretative sensitivity; the main dramatic interest of her scenes lay in seeing who would win the tugs-of-war she waged with the conductor, Frédéric Chaslin, as she sought out the tempos that would let her sound the prettiest.

The body itself, without the neck, may be up to 4.5 feet (1.4 metres) for a full-size instrument, about 3.8 feet (1.2 metres) for a three-quarter size, and only slightly larger than a cello for the small chamber bass, or bassetto.

The Psychosocial Values Questionnaire – PVQ-24 (Pereira et al. 2004a) was part of a more extensive instrument about the social representations of buying habits.

This financial instrument came about in the context of developing country debt -- driven by oil shocks -- and exacerbated by lender austerity requirements.

He began building instruments about four years ago and guesses that he has built about four hundred.

So far in 2009, about a quarter of killings in the city have been committed with knives or other cutting instruments, about the same percentage as in 2008.

What they will see -- or think they are seeing -- is a group of children with musical instruments about to walk into a building for a music lesson.

"People need advice," said Ms. Solanyk, a flute teacher who started selling used instruments about 10 years ago after she noticed students needed shopping guidance.