Sentence examples for building surge from inspiring English sources

A residential building surge followed.

In Southampton, individual homes rather than subdivisions signify the building surge, with mostly second homes and many priced at more than $1 million.

Now, to meet the demand and to accommodate what Dover officials expect to be increasing casualties from Afghanistan, the military has embarked on a building surge at this main entry point for the nation's war dead.

The building surge of the '80s produced little serious architecture, and when it began to return in the 1990s and 2000s, it was generally in the form of cultural institutions and corporate towers.

Combined, Mr. Curry said, this recent building surge will add 391 new homes practically overnight to a community that had 957 houses in 1990 and a mere 257 20 years before.

With competition among museums a clear though intangible factor in the current building surge, it is not surprising that the North Carolina Museum of Art bills itself as "the Southeast's premier visual arts museum," while the High Museum of Art in Atlanta stakes the same claim, calling itself "the leading art museum in the Southeast".

Another gantlet awaited her outside her apartment building, surging against the surrounding gate with such pressure that it buckled.

In 2011, for example, an elevator in a Manhattan office building surged upward with the door still open, killing a 41-year-old advertising executive.

We are pretty familiar with the idea that the oceans swell as a consequence of the plunging atmospheric pressure at the heart of powerful storms, building surges driven onshore by high winds that can be massively destructive.

Meiji Japan, Bismarck's Germany, Cavour's Italy and Lincoln's re-United States were all products of the nation-building surge that swept much of the Western world in the mid-19th century and spawned models for the rest of the world in the 20th century, usually under the banner of "self-determination".

Similarly, the "civilian" surge, which tripled the State Department's personnel there, remains in place, as does the CIA surge that went with it -- and the contractor and base-building surges that went with them.