Sentence examples for backfill from inspiring English sources

Generally, reservists have been used as backfill to complement the regular forces, not replace them.

Indices of hedge-fund returns overstate the numbers because of factors such as "survivor bias" (poor performers stop reporting their numbers) and "backfill bias" (only successful newcomers start to report).

Since 1950, however, most subaqueous tunnelers preferred the immersed-tube method, in which long tube sections are prefabricated, towed to the site, sunk in a previously dredged trench, connected to sections already in place, and then covered with backfill.

Tunnels underwater are now commonly built by the use of an immersed tube: long, prefabricated tube sections are floated to the site, sunk in a prepared trench, and covered with backfill.

So-called cut-and-cover tunnels (more correctly called conduits) are built by excavating from the surface, constructing the structure, and then covering with backfill.

They must be installed with proper bedding and backfill.

The mine shafts were backfilled with hardcore and capped with concrete.

Clever hedge-fund organisers may seed many funds, operate them for a few years, then announce in public only the most successful ones, "backfilling" the performance data from prior periods ie, projecting what the fund might have earned before it existed if it had pursued the same strategy.

The resulting holes would be backfilled in a separate executive decree.

Most subsurface drains are constructed by excavating a trench, installing a tile, and backfilling the trench.

The waste would be emplaced (by remotely controlled or robotic devices) in holes drilled into the floors of these rooms, after which the boreholes would be sealed and the rooms and corridors backfilled.