Sentence examples for wasting about from inspiring English sources

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

While "cloud" data centers are in the spotlight because of their huge energy appetites, they should not obscure the millions of smaller server rooms in American businesses wasting about $2 billion in electricity a year.

Proportionate inspection based on dialogue and mutual trust could promote improvement but Ofsted is this year wasting about £150m of taxpayers' money by creating a climate of fear in schools and colleges.

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

"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".

Replacing the standard ammonium precipitation step, wasting about 50% of the product, with a column based capture step may be a straightforward way to achieve such an increase in recovery.

"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.