Sentence examples for lowered to about from inspiring English sources

Though people in Singapore tend to identify a range from about 68 to 75 degrees as "neutral" temperature — neither hot nor cold — studies found that work improved if the thermostat was lowered to about 72.

After much wrangling this was lowered to about £1m.

And for whoever else runs, the bar has just been lowered to about five feet.

In 2004, export tariffs on this fuel were lowered to about 30 percent to help refineries dispose of it.

I guess the bar has been lowered to about six inches from the ground for the Bush administration if making two good appointments constitutes a "display of competence".

At Morgan Stanley, "furious" institutional shareholders took executives to task last year, questioning why compensation could not be lowered to about 30 percent of revenue from 51 percent, according to Reuters.

One of the main pledges made by Mr. Moratinos is to lower to about 50 percent the proportion of the F.A.O.'s budget that is spent on salaries and administrative costs, from 70 percent at present.

The dividend would be lowered to 89 cents from about $2.09.

Average movie budgets will be lowered to at least $125 million from about $145 million, he said.

After three Ca2+ injections at pHi between 7.7 and 7.4, two injections of H+ lowered pHi to about 6.6.

His voice lowers to talk about his post-Blue Velvet career.