Sentence examples for was finished about from inspiring English sources

Villagers also said that when the operation was finished — about six hours after it began, they said — they discovered the body of their tribal elder, Sheik Hameed Hassan, who was in his mid-60s, blindfolded and handcuffed with his arms behind his back.

By the time the wrecking crew was finished, about 600 of 900 trees on the plot had either been pulled down or damaged by another tree's fall.

Regent Street, with its colonnades (demolished 1848) and its Quadrant leading into Piccadilly Circus, was finished about 1825.

The cathedral was begun in 1220 on the plans of Robert de Luzarches and was finished about 50 years later (there were subsequent additions).

It was finished about the time Vidal moved from Rome to Ravello, where he purchased La Rondinaia, a palatial villa perched on a cliffside overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.

The city would have received annual payments totaling $15 million from the company and a new reservoir when excavating was finished about 40 years later.

"The urge to continue," Boice writes, "includes a big component of impatience about not being finished, about not being productive enough, about never again finding such an ideal time for writing".

The job is due to be finished about 2012, by which time it will have cost the Czech state more than €17m.

The Medical Campus now employs 12,000 people, with possibly thousands more once another phase of development is finished about four years from now.

The crowd shouted slogans like "He's finished!" about Mr. Milosevic, and "Save Serbia from this madhouse, Kostunica!" (pronounced KOSH-too-nee-tsa).

The principal mausoleum was completed in 1648 and the surrounding buildings and garden were finished about five years later.