Sentence examples for was lost about from inspiring English sources

The game was delayed for an hour 41 minutes after power was lost about two hours before the scheduled start.

Earlier reports had said the 146-foot vessel was lost about 225 miles south-southwest of Guam, but today it was about 500 miles southwest of Guam.

The airline said contact was lost about 16km (10 miles) inside Egyptian airspace at 2.30am local time (00.30 GMT/01.30 BST/10.30 AEST).

Contact with the plane, an Airbus A320, was lost about 16km into Egyptian airspace at 2.45am local time on Thursday, with 56 passengers and 10 crew onboard.

A second rocket, launched in March 2007, made it to space but was lost about five minutes after launching because it began rolling uncontrollably.

An eight-vessel search for the Russian Il-20, a surveillance plane, was initiated after contact was lost about 20 miles (35km) off the coast of Syria at about 11pm local time (8pm GMT) on Monday.

At the rate they are being lost, about 33 acres annually, they could vanish entirely in two decades.

Between October 1943 and May 1944, it was losing about one crew a week.

Before Financial Fair Play, European soccer was losing about EUR 2.3 bn per year.

The authors estimated that the retailer was losing about 9% of sales and 7% of profits due to this mismatch.

But it was losing about $20 million a year, and its work force had plummeted to 300 from 12,500.