Sentence examples for construction at the time from inspiring English sources

An additional hydroelectric project, the Gilgel Gibe III, was under construction at the time of the inauguration.

There was no active construction at the time of the collapse, said Tony Sclafani, a buildings spokesman.

China, with some two dozen reactors under construction at the time of the disaster, slowed its planned growth, though it still projected a fivefold increase in nuclear capacity by 2020.

Baths were scattered throughout the town: the Stabian Baths (which predate the Roman period), the Forum Baths, the Central Baths (still under construction at the time of the eruption), and many baths in luxurious private homes.

When Mr. Anwar's lawyers noted that the building in which the act allegedly took place had been under construction at the time, the prosecution switched the date again, to 1993.

A large model of the Analytical Engine was under construction at the time of Babbage's death in 1871 but a full-scale version was never built.

The Glamis road opened in August 1958, and the road from Glamis to Palo Verde was under construction at that time; the part of the road that was already open was dedicated in October.

The new bridge was designed in reinforced concrete by architect Sir Herbert Baker and engineer Alfred Dryland, with additional input from Considère Constructions, at the time Britain's leading specialist in reinforced concrete construction.

Electric arc welding, another important steel technology, was applied to building construction at this time, although the principle had been developed in the 1880s.

More than 1,000 workers were employed to help construct the mall, with the project "monopolizing the local (construction) trade" at the time.

Built a few hundred years after the establishment of Memphis, the pyramid was the product of considerable advances in construction techniques at the time.