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

`` About nine this morning Mrs. Buck phones me she's having trouble with one of her farm hands -- money trouble.

About halfway back Pops groped against a wall and stopped, pulled away two loosely nailed wide boards at one end, and went through.

About that same time John Crosby's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do.

About seven million years old, an age that makes it one of the youngest open clusters in the Milky Way, it appears to have the shape of a letter A.

(" Tennessee Homesick Blues " and " Think About Love " reached number one.

* Eve Harrington, one of the main characters in the film All About Eve

About four miles from Shrewsbury and close by Haughmond Abbey is " Queen Eleanor's Bower ", the remains of a triangular castle which is believed to have been one of her prisons.

About 64 % live in towns and cities, with one million living in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area alone.

About one of every six Haitians live abroad.

About the Fiennes Hamlet Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times that it was "... not one for literary sleuths and Shakespeare scholars.

About 25 years after Herodotus, Thucydides, perhaps the most important of historians, pioneered a different form of history, one much closer to reportage.

About Miro, he confided to his art adviser and friend Pierre Sterckx that he felt a shock the first time he saw one of his paintings.

About one hundred and fifty such units of government existed.

About this time the Dutch appear to have abandoned the temporary stations consisting of tents of sail and crude furnaces, replacing them with two semi-permanent stations with wooden storehouses and dwellings and large brick furnces, one in the above-mentioned South Bay and the other in the North Bay.

He appeared on television on one episode of Mad About Yous first season in 1992, playing an eccentric billionaire.

About 32 % of the country's revenues are invested in research and development, one of the driving forces of the success of Liechtenstein's economy.

About one in ten people think they have had an out-of-body experience at some time in their lives.

Anderson developed an acquaintance from 1950 with John Ford, which led to what has come to be regarded as one of the standard books on that director, Anderson's About John Ford ( 1983 ).

About a year later, the Soviets recreated division-sized mechanized infantry units termed Mechanized Corps, usually consisting of one tank brigade and three mechanized infantry brigades, with motorized supporting arms.

About 20 % of cases of cystic fibrosis present with meconium ileus, while approximately 20 % of one series of cases of meconium ileus did not have cystic fibrosis.

About 57 % of Pakistan's total land area is under cultivation and is watered by one of the largest irrigation systems in the world.

About 15 percent of workers are members of one of Paraguay ’ s 1, 600 unions.

About 25 % of other ranks died, many from malnutrition, while only one officer died.

About 100 of the most important items he had already given to the museum.

About 62 % of officially registered wage earners earn at least the average monthly wage, while only 19. 6 % receive a monthly salary of over 100, 000 drams ( about $ 330 at the time ).

About 17. 8 % ( 3, 100, 000 ha ) of the total forested area of Vietnam was sprayed during the war, which dramatically disrupted ecological equilibrium.

About 100, 000 of these were conscripts.

About 100, 000 Comorians live in France ; many of them had gone there for a university education and never returned.

About 100 million bacteria must typically be ingested to cause cholera in a normal healthy adult.

About 100 tonnes of dysprosium are produced worldwide each year, with 99 % of that total produced in China Dysprosium prices have climbed nearly twentyfold, from $ 7 per pound in 2003, to $ 130 a pound in late 2010.

About 90 % of the deforestation has occurred within 100 km of roads in most parts of the Amazon.

About 100 V6 engines were built for testing purposes and 13 DKW F102 as well as some Mungas were fitted with the V6 engine in the 1960s.

About 1, 050 of a total Alaska population of 1, 100 Siberian Yupik people in Alaska still speak the language, and it is still the first language of the home for most St. Lawrence Island children.

About 100, 000 of these can be felt.

About eight to 12 annual changing exhibitions and permanent collection exhibitions provide educational opportunities for all ages, from learning the history of a quilt hand-stitched over 100 years ago to discovering how scientists analyze the physical properties of artists ' materials, such as glass or stone.

About 100 Peace Corps volunteers concentrate in the sectors of health, agriculture, education, rural community development, and the environment.

The oldest metatherian fossils ( Metatheria being a larger clade that groups marsupials with some of their extinct relatives ) are found in present-day China. About 100 mya, the supercontinent Pangaea was in the process of splitting into the northern continent Laurasia and the southern continent Gondwana, with what would become China and Australia already separated by the Tethys Ocean.

About 100 Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1, 300 British forces to encircle them.

About 100 men and women received the award, the most famous being newspaperman Ernie Pyle, who was awarded a posthumous Army Purple Heart after being killed by Japanese machine gun fire in 1945.

About 95 % of the species are in five families: Crassulaceae ( 1400 ), Saxifragaceae ( 500 ), Grossulariaceae ( 150-200 ), Haloragaceae ( 150 ), and Hamamelidaceae ( 100 ).

The album provided two mainstream hits: the lead single " Price to Play ", and " So Far Away " ( which spent 14 weeks on top of the rock chart, and was featured on an episode of Smallville ); in addition, two other singles failed to crack the Hot 100 —" How About You " and " Zoe Jane "— but " How About You " was a fairly popular song on modern rock radio.

About twenty of the most senior government ministers make up the Cabinet and approximately 100 ministers in total comprise the government.

About 28 % of the people live in cities of 100, 000 or more population.

About 100, 000 Polish military personnel were evacuated to Romania and the Baltic countries ; many of these soldiers later fought against the Germans in other theatres of the war.

* December 31 – About 100, 000 Jews are expelled from Sicily.

About 70, 000 – 100, 000 years ago some modern humans began to migrate away from the tropics to the north where they were exposed to less intense sunlight, possibly in part due to the need for greater use of clothing to protect against the colder climate.