Sentence examples for owning about from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, the French state will end up owning about 40% of GDF Suez, once stakes held by two other state-owned firms, Areva and CDC, are counted.

In the process, Mr. Martinez became the biggest individual outside creditor, owning about $600 million worth of claims.

The company will go from being a client of the digital advertising company Flite to owning about 11 percent of it.

In one possible scenario, Time would transfer AOL, a struggling web portal it owns, to Yahoo!, along with an additional cash investment, and would end up owning about 20% of Yahoo!

It is no accident that the Queen of Great Britain - arguably the harbinger of contemporary global capitalism before its supercession by the United States - is the world's largest landlord, owning about 6.6 billion acres of land.

The union could end up owning about 20% of a restructured GM, with taxpayers owning as much as 70% and bondholders owning the remaining 10%.

It now owns about 140.

Harris owns about 7.5percentt of Nikko.

He currently owns about 19% of the company's shares.

Today he owns about 14% of the international hotel chain.

(Chang owns about 0.5%, a stake worth $140 million).