Sentence examples for purse about from inspiring English sources

Just under £1.9 billion of the total came from the public purse, about half of which was spent on transport infrastructure.

And, while the figure is half what it once was, it still costs the public purse about $13,500 to create one new job.

My mother kept a stash of little plastic fetus dolls in her purse, about the size of an apricot, just in case we saw a pregnant woman at the supermarket who might be considering aborting her baby.

While holding the frame and the purse fabric together with your other hand, insert the needle from the wrong side of the purse about 5mm/0.19" away from the fabric's edge into the second hole of the frame to start.

Sponsors, including I.B.M. and M-tel, Bulgaria's mobile phone company, have put up a purse of about $2.7 million, with 60 percent going to the winner.

From a sample of 50 financial services companies, including banks, building societies and insurance companies, it extrapolates that for the year to 31 March 2016 the financial sector made a contribution of £71.4bn to the public purse, or about 11.5% of the total UK tax receipts.

According to co-founder Dan Salcedo, the purse takes about 6 hours on a charging pad to be fully charged, and provides twice the battery life of your iPhone.

After all, in two years' time London will play host to the Olympic games, at a cost to the rapidly emptying public purse of about £9 billion ($13 billion).

Workers retrieved her purse, but about 15 minutes later, the woman called back to say that she had lost her child on the way home.

The Tamer Institute for Community Education, a Palestinian organization, has won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, which, with a purse worth about six hundred and twenty thousand dollars, is children's literature's richest prize.

It is into this setting that Tyson has come, to earn a purse of about $8 million, bringing with him the controversy that has accompanied him wherever he goes for a decade.