About 27 % of the total territory is cultivable, with the central Zemgale Plain south of Riga being the most fertile and profitable.

About 15. 0 % of families and 20. 4 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 27. 5 % of those under the age of 18 and 13. 5 % ages 65 or older.

About 20, 000 Syrian soldiers were deployed in Lebanon until 27 April 2005, when the last of Syria's troops left the country.

About 24. 5 % of families and 27. 4 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 40. 6 % of those under age 18 and 24. 8 % of those age 65 or over.

* July 27 – About 50 are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.

About 342 of the Texian troops captured during the Goliad Campaign were executed a week later on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836, under Santa Anna's direct orders, widely known as the Goliad Massacre.

About 14. 30 % of families and 19. 10 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 23. 40 % of those under age 18 and 27. 60 % of those age 65 or over.

About 24. 40 % of families and 27. 50 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 37. 00 % of those under age 18 and 15. 00 % of those age 65 or over.

About 27. 4 percent of Medicare expenditures for the elderly are spent in the last year of a person's life.

About 20. 4 % of families and 27. 8 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 41. 7 % of those under age 18 and 13. 5 % of those age 65 or over.

About 22. 3 % of families and 27. 2 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 41. 1 % of those under age 18 and 17. 3 % of those age 65 or over.

About 14. 90 % of families and 20. 60 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 27. 60 % of those under age 18 and 18. 80 % of those age 65 or over.

About 27. 20 % of families and 31. 10 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 40. 70 % of those under age 18 and 27. 60 % of those age 65 or over.

About 15. 90 % of families and 19. 60 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 27. 20 % of those under age 18 and 21. 80 % of those age 65 or over.

About 14. 50 % of families and 19. 10 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 27. 00 % of those under age 18 and 20. 60 % of those age 65 or over.

About 18. 20 % of families and 21. 30 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 27. 00 % of those under age 18 and 21. 40 % of those age 65 or over.

About 17. 90 % of families and 22. 00 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 27. 90 % of those under age 18 and 13. 70 % of those age 65 or over.

About 15. 5 % of families and 19. 2 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 27. 9 % of those under age 18 and 8. 7 % of those age 65 or over.

About 15. 30 % of families and 20. 30 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 27. 00 % of those under age 18 and 16. 10 % of those age 65 or over.

About 22. 80 % of families and 27. 90 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 37. 60 % of those under age 18 and 20. 80 % of those age 65 or over.

About 20. 20 % of families and 25. 90 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 27. 70 % of those under age 18 and 8. 90 % of those age 65 or over.

About 18. 30 % of families and 22. 00 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 27. 90 % of those under age 18 and 13. 90 % of those age 65 or over.

About 14. 8 % of families and 19. 7 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 27. 2 % of those under age 18 and 11. 3 % of those age 65 or over.

About 13. 60 % of families and 18. 10 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 27. 60 % of those under age 18 and 6. 40 % of those age 65 or over.

`` About five miles north of the line ''.

About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade, as best Mike could make out in the moonlight.

About now he's probably having supper.

About the murder ''.

About that time Miss Langford straightened up and looked out the window directly at him, he thought, although probably she didn't even see him.

About one-third as long, it is less intimate and detailed, but better coordinated, more concise and more dramatic.

About this man we had to think twice.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

About noon they came up with the enemy two miles from Lovejoy's Station and deployed.

`` About the same, John, about the same ''.

About 45 percent of the loss in growth was attributable to disease, 20 percent to insects, 17 percent to fire, and 18 percent to weather, animals, and various other causes.

About 26,500 miles of existing trails will be replaced in service by the construction of new roads.

About 80 percent of these long-range requirements should be met by the year 2000.

-- About 30% of the expenditures for the Department of Defense in 1961 are for military personnel costs, including pay for active, reserve, and retired military personnel.

About that time he began reading Mr. America and Muscle Builder and he learned of the famous Weider way to fast weight gaining.

About the Pro Arte's contribution I am less happy.

About 40,000,000 people participated in boating in 1960.

About a thousand years after that, when the Roman Empire was divided, it became capital of the Eastern section.

About 11 percent of the total population was covered in the new investigation, as compared with about 3 percent in the previous inquiries.

About 300 yards up the creek was a cluster of Mexican houses containing six rooms in the form of a square.

About 1888 J. E. McNaughton of Barnumville and E. G. Bacon became proprietors of the `` Green Mountain Telegraph Company '', connecting all offices on the Western Union line and extending over the mountain from Barnumville to Peru, Londonderry, South Londonderry, Lowell Lake, Windham, North Windham, Grafton, Cambridgeport, Saxton's River, and Bellows Falls.

About a quarter of Hardy's poems carry an appended date line, usually the year of completion, but sometimes inclusive years ( `` 1908 - 1910 '' ) or two separate dates when Hardy worked on the poem ( `` 1905 and 1926 '' ) or an approximate date ( `` During the War '' ).

About dawn he got up to blow.

The famous author tells us of the strange incident in Something About Myself.

About two-thirds of the boys now come from public schools.