Sentence examples for the block about from inspiring English sources

Those who live there say he appeared on the block about three years ago.

But I knew what this naughty Web site was doing; I've been around the block about 70 million times.

Instead of lines that snaked around the block, about 150 people quietly strolled into a sparsely populated auditorium, where the empty seats outnumbered the audience.

Analysts said the Chicago unit has many troubled loans on its books and the asking price for the company has come steadily down since it was first put on the block about two months ago.

Elsewhere on the block, about fifteen people stood with signs like, "Who will pay for Nancy Pelosi's Botox?" and "Sandra Fluke — I don't want to pay for your birth control!" "So many of our people have been to D.C. repeatedly," explained Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots.

These wildly popular and well-reviewed games are excellent for kids between the ages of about eight (just when they're starting to read well) and, judging by the crowd at the Nintendo store in a line that wrapped around the block, about 25.

The treads will overhang the fronts of the blocks about an inch, while the mortar joints behind the blocks will take up the other inch.

The largest proportion of the blocks (about 40%), show two haplotypes, complying with the expectation from a uniform diploid genomic sample.

However, the Memory Metal test specimens did experience rotation of the superior block about the transverse bridge, and the inferior transverse bridge experienced bending about the center of the test block.

By John McPhee The New Yorker, December 4 , 1989P. 150 ANNALS OF THE AUCTION BLOCK about the Manheim Exotic Auction in Pennsylvania.

However, the Memory Metal test specimens did experience rotation of the superior block about the transverse bridge.