Sentence examples for bridges about from inspiring English sources

Instead, Congress allocated $1 billion to inspect and repair deficient bridges, about $13,500 per bridge.

I keep remembering Hopkins' marvelous letter to Bridges about the idea of a "gentleman" being the highest thing ever conceived higher than a "Christian" even, certainly than a poet.

In Illinois, state officials said they would begin a new inspection policy for bridges about to undergo construction work; such bridges will now probably be closed for a day or two for the inspections, said Mike Claffey, a spokesman for the Department of Transportation.

In this context, a 12.4 m span railway bridge near Sacile, Italy, with a common structural scheme for railway bridges, about ninety years old, was taken out of service, transported to a structural laboratory and subjected to both material characterization, monotonic and high-cycle fatigue shear tests.

The Commandos cleared the town of Ouistreham and headed for the bridges, about 10 mile away.

Everywhere I go, I see streets and highways that need resurfacing, bridges about to fall down and airports in dire need of new runways.

Set in Fort Lee, with beautiful views of the George Washington Bridge: about Korean grocers, whose daughter must make an agonizing choice between Harvard and Juilliard.

Then we began hearing volleys of gunfire crackling like popcorn, most likely coming from the Bosphorus Bridge (about 2km/1.2 miles away from my apartment).

CCTV footage showed her with a group of people near Lendal bridge at about 2.20am.

Some survivors said the crowd panicked when people shouted that the slightly swaying bridge was about to collapse.

The Confederates approached the bridge at about 5 p.m. Stuart ordered the 12th Virginia Cavalry to charge.