7 sentences with 'construction'
Example sentences and phrases with the word construction and other words derived from it.
• « This implies the construction of new trails and bird shelters, and the hiring of more guides for the park. »
• « Among construction workers, miners, railway workers and dock workers, studies have recorded a consumption of wine and beer that exceeds three times the normal level; the ingestion of up to a litre and a half of wine at a time was, in these sectors, considered acceptable and even necessary to alleviate the harshness of the work. »
• « Theories associating the construction of Egypt's pyramids with extraterrestrial beings having been discarded, no one doubts that human endeavour was the sole god of these stone giants. »
• « 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. »
• « The details of its construction are as enormous as its price: more than 18,000 pieces of iron were fitted together and perfectly adjusted as if it were an immense Meccano set. »
• « The owner of a Belleview construction company, upon learning that steel beams would be needed, rushed to his warehouse 25 km from the mine. »
• « The enormous amount of energy expended in the construction of the pyramids is therefore staggering; only the incredible bounty of the Nile and its crops enabled the pyramids to be built by providing the calories consumed by the workers and draught animals, the wealth used to employ the supporting bureaucracy and the size of the population that sustained the entire enterprise. »