The phrase "a surveying" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used in contexts where "surveying" is a noun, but it should be preceded by an article that matches its grammatical form, such as "the surveying" or "surveying" without an article.
Example: "The surveying of the land was completed last week."
Alternatives: "a survey" or "the act of surveying".
It is a small building tucked behind a surveying company and an off-brand Jiffy Lube.
The mapping was carried out by Zhu Kezhen, a Chinese naval ship, and Fugro Equator, a specialist vessel contracted from Fugro, a surveying company based in the Netherlands.
Cook had an outstanding record as a chart maker and a resourceful commander of a surveying ship, and a reputation in high quarters for "genius and capacity".
Using a surveying instrument being lowered through the narrow hole, officials determined that the drill had landed in the correct vicinity.
Akin to these works is the Dioptra, a book on land surveying; it contains a description of the diopter, a surveying instrument used for the same purposes as the modern theodolite.
"In the old days, there was the same concept but in a cruder form," said Bruce Hartshorn, president of Potomac Aerial Surveys, a surveying company in Frederick, Md. "It was all done by hand in ink on Mylar.
In 1955 a surveying team determined the world's tallest mountain sits at 29,029 feet above sea level.
He is credited as the inventor of trigonometry, but also began to measure the night sky using instruments like the dioptra (Gr.διόπτρα, a surveying instrument for the stars) and perhaps the armillary astrolabe.
From a surveying standpoint, we probably really don't because we can always go back and figure out where things are.
The first of these were of Mexico, where he was invited to join a surveying expedition as photographer.
In 1763 George Washington, as a member of a surveying and engineering company, surveyed the area with a view to canalizing, draining, and reclaiming it.
