Sentence examples for were stopped about from inspiring English sources

The trains, all Southwest Chiefs running between Chicago and Los Angeles, were stopped about 9 45 p.m. E.S.T. near Los Angeles La Juntaa, Colo.; Bosworth, Mo.; and Gallup, N.M., said Kevin Johnson, head of Amtrak media relations in Chicago.

Last year about 250,000 people were stopped – about 700 a day.

Yet when he and his staff were stopped about four months ago, his stature did not matter.

Earlier this month, refugees and migrants boarded a train in Budapest expecting to head to the border with Austria, but were stopped about 20 miles away in the town of Bicske, where Hungary has a camp for asylum-seekers.

Desai and her protesters were stopped about 40 miles from the Shani Shingnapur temple, where an equally determined group of counterprotesters had waited, ready to protect it from desecration by female invaders.

Pockets of German resistance remained throughout the beachhead area and the British were stopped about 3.7 mile short of their D-Day objectives.

The episode began, said Deputy Steve Jauch, a Sheriff's Department spokesman, when the car was stopped about 5 10 p.m. for expired license plates.

"Just because a case may be dismissed criminally, it can still be pursued civilly". Hays was stopped about 12 55 p.m. in April last year at a Bob Hope Airport security checkpoint.

Given that we were stopping about every 10 minutes to bribe the 6-year-old with treats, there was plenty of opportunity to look for chatter marks.

Before the installation work was stopped, about 100 miles of cable had been laid since summer.

He said most of the rebels had been stopped about 125 miles west of the capital.