Sentence examples for retaining about from inspiring English sources

For the new government, the costs of reconciliation included retaining about 15,000 unneeded white civil servants, deferring the landownership and mineral-company terms issues, and offering de facto amnesty for all pre-independence acts of violence (including those of SWAPO against suspected spies and dissidents in Angola in the late 1980s).

Wetlands are among the most productive ecosystems of the planet, retaining about one-half to one-third of the carbon fixed and providing important ecosystem services to the estuarine system, namely nutrient regeneration, primary production and shoreline stabilization as well as a habitat for wildlife (Caçador et al. 2009).

Madame Bettencourt remains L'Oreal's biggest shareholder, retaining about 30percentthroughgh the family holding company, Téthys.

The bioengineered organs produced urine in rat recipients, retaining about 5 percent of the function of healthy kidneys.

BA would undoubtedly take the lead role in any merger, with shareholders retaining about two-thirds of the combined group.

In November, Xstrata shareholders blocked efforts to hand out bonuses worth a combined $220 million that were aimed at retaining about 70 of the mining company's top executives.

He said the team retained about 8,000 of last year's 8,500 season-ticket holders and added 3,000 more.

The owners of the farm, the investors John Sites and Giles Brophy, will retain about 70 acres.

Microsoft has retained about 1.9 million shares of common stock in the company.

The Archdiocese retains about 200 acres, now the site of a home for developmentally disabled young adults.

The logs were commercially de-limbed as an industry practice, which retained about 20%% bark by surface area.