11 sentences with 'tower'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tower and other words derived from it.
• « For the Universal Exhibition to be held in 1889, a competition was organised for the construction of a tower that would be a masterpiece of the mechanical industry. »
• « Two and a half million rivets were used, and the total weight of the tower reached 7,000 tons. »
• « Although the original contract stipulated that the tower was to be demolished twenty years after its inauguration, it stands there, unscathed by time and criticism, looking down from its imposing 300 metres on the recent history of France. »
• « For generations, Florence's cathedral had remained unfinished, its main tower having been built too large and too tall for any architect to complete. Literally no one knew how to build a free-standing stone dome at the top of a tower over 350 feet high. »
• « To the captain's right, on his first flight with him, was 39-year-old first officer Alastair Atchison, concentrating on the instructions beamed to him from the control tower, which was guiding Flight 5390 through the crowded airspace west of London. »
• « At 8:42, nine minutes after decompression, Chris Rundle, head of surveillance at Southampton Airport, was notified by the control tower that a jet 111 was diverting to Southampton, apparently with a pressurisation problem. »
• « The tower, the bell tower of the cathedral of Pisa, was completed in 1350 and was problematic from the start. »
• « The unbalanced appearance of the tower of Pisa has led to a multitude of unsolicited suggestions for its preservation. »
• « No one knows, but in view of the stress factors acting on the ground and on the tower, some people are convinced that a strong wind could topple the eight-storey structure at any moment. »
• « The tower built in 285 BC on the island of Pharos, off Alexandria, was the first lighthouse in living memory and gave its name to later constructions. It is estimated to have been about 130 metres high and a permanently lit fire was kept burning on its summit. »