Sentence examples for brick size from inspiring English sources

Ski down the high street Once upon a time, when mobiles were no longer brick size but still rare, there was a telephone at the top of a piste in Colorado's Winter Park resort, with a direct line to the pizzeria down at the bottom.

The original concept of ancient brickmakers was that the unit should not be larger than what one man could easily handle; today, brick size varies from country to country, and every nation's brickmaking industry produces a range of sizes that may run into the hundreds.

The walls were structurally designed with a rectangular brick size opening in every alternative block to prevent the walls being dismantled by strong gusty wind and also served as an efficient use of stones.

We show that the interfacial elasto-plasticity and the overlapping length between bricks dependent on the brick size and brick staggering mode significantly affect the nonuniformity of the shear stress, the stress-transfer efficiency and thus the failure path.

Therefore, in order to better understand the mechanical behavior of synthetic staggered composites, the problem becomes two-pronged: (a) synthesize composites with varying brick size and contents and (b) experimental investigation of the material response.

In this study, we examine how manipulation of filament size can lead to improved mechanical performance in the resulting biomimetic ceramics by reduction of the brick size and mortar thickness while still maintaining a model high volume fraction (∼90 vol.%) ceramic containing a metallic compliant phase.

At one office, Duale showed me a safe containing brick-size wads of $100 bills.

Video stores are nostalgic cousins to pagers, faxes and brick-size cellphones.

People stood around, clutching brick-size bits of wood the city was handing out or longer, sawed-off sections.

The fossil went unnoticed until three years ago when a member of the academy staff, Fred Mullison, isolated the bone from a brick-size piece of sandstone.

We hired Mr. H., a monosyllabic Sri Lankan chain-smoker, to redo the facade, which was falling onto the sidewalk in brick-size chunks.