Sentence examples for patrolling about from inspiring English sources

While New York has a 40,000-member force patrolling about 300 square miles, Los Angeles has 8,800 officers policing 470 square miles.

The police patrol stopped about 20 m away from Nao's canoe, and the patrol boat commander questioned both men about their activities during that time of the evening.

"A Libyan coastguard patrol was about 25 miles offshore.

6/7/2010 We go out on 11-hour foot patrol at about 6am.

After the meeting, Mr. McNerney said he hoped to have a patrol of about 20 people running within a year.

The joint patrols came about after an Oct. 5 attack on two Chinese cargo ships led to the deaths of 13 sailors.

On average, the crew will go on patrol for about 80 days, unable to communicate during that time with their families, though they can receive messages, either an 120-word one once a week or two 60-word ones.

There is all the stoicism and heroism of the time, but also the machismo and racism: "A patrol of about 18 Japs tried to penetrate our lines during the early morning.

On their way back to the beach they sighted a German patrol of about seven or eight men coming from the direction of the houses so they took cover.

In the mid-1970s, patrolledtrolled about 1 percent of schools.

A minute later, a car exploded near a police patrol about a half-mile away, said the official, Brig.