Sentence examples for there only about from inspiring English sources

I was there only about a year.

Of some 200 houses there, only about 10 were still standing after the storm passed.

"We had been there only about three minutes," one of them related, "when two men jumped out of the dark, one on each side.

Yet of the 30,000 species out there, only about 1,200 sound producers have been cataloged, and far fewer have been recorded.

In the 2008 primary there, only about a third of the vote was counted by 9 p.m., an hour after polls closed, and only about half was counted by 10 p.m.

While some 47 people were arrested Thursday, including some in Mexico in what officials called exceptional cooperation with officers there, only about 17 were illegal immigrants being smuggled, and some of them will be granted permission to remain in the United States to serve as witnesses in the case, Mr. Morton said.

In 1981, mountain gorillas there numbered only about 250.

"There are only about 8,000 people there.

There are only about 60 seats.

Here in the domain, there are only about 40.

There are only about 20 different naturally-occurring amino acids.