Sentence examples for wasted about from inspiring English sources

"We wasted about 30 minutes," he said.

"We just wasted about five hours," I said.

I made a lot of mistakes, so I wasted about a rain forest of paper.

That wasn't scary — it just wasted about two-thirds of our interview time.

Froch wasted about three seconds of the opening round before letting the first of a hundred vicious combinations go in Pascal's direction.

"I wasted about two hours of my time listening to meaningless words," retorted a 30-year-old anti-government activist in Damascus who gave his name as Mazen.

So, at most, those who don't win are wasting about three times the cost of a television licence for the year.

On annual turnover of about £3.5m, the family-run company estimates it wastes about £250,000 and is getting help from the Business Growth Service to cut that.

"Since each [CAPTCHA] takes about 10 seconds of human time," von Ahn says, "we figured humanity as a whole was wasting about 500,000 hours every day typing".

"Just recently a report said that in London alone the health service was wasting about £384m a year on agency staff," he said.

This will waste about 5 minutes every time you go.