Sentence examples for at scrap from inspiring English sources

Demand is so strong that manhole covers are disappearing from city streets, reappearing at scrap yards outside town.

[New York Post] A man was arrested and charged with stealing copper cable from the subway tracks, to sell for quick cash at scrap yards.

Sales at Scrap, a craft supply store in Portland, Ore., were up 33percentt in November compared with the year before.

California enacted a law in 2009 requiring people selling copper wire or catalytic converters at scrap yards to be photographed, have their driver's license copied and wait at least three days for payment.

But just a few minutes away by car one recent morning, grandmothers waded through raw sewage in the labyrinthine slum of La Chacarita, scavenging copper wire and aluminum cans to sell at scrap yards.

Paul Rogers, a professor of peace studies at Bradford University who has spoken at Scrap Trident protests, said: "The real issue here is whether Corbyn is opening this up and gives us a real debate.

In 1930, an American philanthropist purchased the entire set at scrap-metal prices about eighteen thousand dollars and donated it to Harvard.

Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, once said that he didn't need to study a lot of economic indicators to sense where the economy was headed; he needed only to look at scrap-metal prices.

Certainly not by clutching at scraps of better news.

Small birds dart among the trucks, pecking at scraps.

"The problem is that Japanese society is good at building but not at scrapping.