Sentence examples for raid about from inspiring English sources

He was captured in a police raid about six hours later, the authorities said.

This was not the largest number killed in a single raid: about 83,000 people died in a "conventional" raid on Tokyo in March that year.

On news of the New York raid, about 100 held a march accompanied by the police, said Sergeant Mitzi Fierro of the Los Angeles police.

Abdullah, 32, also from Logar, said that he was arrested with his two brothers during a night raid about 20 months ago.

Nearly five years after that raid, about a dozen other names from 2003 have been linked in some form or another to positive tests.

In September 2009, a gunman opened fire on a group of officers who burst into a home during a drug and gun raid about six miles from where Mr. Matlosz was killed.

I repeat these late-night raids about once a week for the next two months or so, taking about $200 in all.

They raided about 35 sites, including sugar factories and the homes of top executives, whose telephones were also tapped.

Burglars tunneled their way into a Parisian bank vault late Saturday night and raided about 125 safe deposit boxes, the police said Tuesday.

Three men at a fifth-floor apartment on 41st Avenue, in Flushing, Queens, described how they had been interrogated on at least three separate occasions since their home was raided about 2 a.m.

By Mollie Panter-Downes The New Yorker, August 31, 1940 P. 26 LETTER FROM LONDON about air raids and about British feelings about Italy and the war.