Across the Po Valley in north-eastern Italy, the gates of Lanerossi's huge wool mill in Schio shut for the last time at the end of August 2005, ending almost two centuries of activity; 30 years ago the firm employed 7,000 workers.
English titles do not come free with packets of cornflakes: Saracens are only the sixth club in almost a quarter of a century of league activity to win one, and it is a reasonable bet that Nigel Wray, a generous spirit as well as a generous benefactor, has spent more than any of his fellow investors, past or present, in securing the damned thing.
After more than a century of mining activity for antimony, gold, silver, and tungsten, large waste piles containing high concentrations of As occur throughout the site [89 91].
Antarctica is commonly regarded as a pristine environment, but more than a century of human activity has left an extensive legacy of abandoned waste.
After almost half a century of research activities artificial vision systems are moving in the clinical practice.
The wetland soils in the CdA River Basin have elevated concentrations of As, Cd, Pb and Zn due to more than a century of mining activities in the watershed that has redistributed the mining and milling materials throughout the floodplain [39 41].
Around Scotland's coastline, they built 97 in almost two centuries of frenetic activity.
In Morocco, as is common throughout the western Mediterranean region, centuries of human activity have considerably altered the natural vegetation.
Our guide points out, for example, the carefully aligned stones in the lowest rows of the stone walls around the ball court -- in spite of centuries of earthquake activity, these earliest examples of Zapotec construction remain in perfect condition.
The combination of physical conditions and centuries of human activity in Wales has brought about a predominance of grasslands, varying from mountain grasses and heather to lowland pastures of bent grass (Agrostis) and ryegrass.
But by 1038, the year of Hai's death, the consequences of four centuries of gaonic activity had become indelible: the Babylonian Talmud had become the agent of basic Jewish uniformity; the synthesis of philosophy and tradition had become the hallmark of the Jewish intelligentsia; and the Hebrew classics of the past had become the texts of study in Jewish schools everywhere.
