Sentence examples for it contained about from inspiring English sources

Amazon won't release sales figures for Kindle titles, but Apple boasted that 1.5 million titles were downloaded from its iBook store in the first month of its existence, when it contained about 50,000 titles (including free public domain titles).

The police said it contained about $500.

It contained about half a part per billion.

It contained about one fifth of the population & an even greater proportion of industrial resources.

The air was nearly 90 degrees and humid, but it contained about 20 percent oxygen, like outside air.

France was the largest country in Europe up to the time of Napoleon, when it contained about a fifth of all Europeans and was the world's third-most-populous nation.

It contains about 120 carousel animals from the collection of 750 of Duane and Carol Perron.

It contains about 30,000 marine animals and plants representing some 350 species.

Tonic water contains quinine, which gives it a slightly bitter taste (that seems to go well with gin); it contains about 120 calories per serving.

On its three floors, it contains about 17,000 crypts, including a modest one whose plaque holds a musical note for singer Ella Fitzgerald, who died in June.

Still, it contains about 400 pounds of conventional explosives and an undisclosed amount of uranium.