Sentence examples for crossings were built from inspiring English sources

When the various crossings were built in the 1920's, 30's and 40's, he said, Port Authority surveyors and engineers used longitude and latitude figures provided by the Coast Guard to pinpoint the Hudson's actual center.

Five crossings were built from the Russian settlement of Pnevo across the 2 km wide sound called Lämmijärv to the Estonian village of Mehikoorma.

Crossings are built at sites where wildlife naturally try to cross the road, along with fences to help animals find the structure's entrance.

This crowd-pleaser for the "white van man" and woman in south east Wales and the south west of England, together with the other reductions, will be the first toll cuts on the Severn crossings since they were built.

The river crossings that preceded it were built to connect the town to the plantations, and slaveowner wealth drove local development.

As the trail became more heavily used, however, ferries and bridges sprang up at river crossings, and more trading posts and forts were built.

Roads were built, the Crinan canal shortened the sea distance to Glasgow and the numerous traditional ferry crossings were augmented by new quays.

In northern Europe, wildlife crossings have been built for the benefit of badgers and other native species.

Smaller crossings have been built in the United States, protecting spotted salamanders in Massachusetts, desert tortoises in California and mountain goats in Montana.

Its name suggests that anyone can make music on anything, and its boundary-crossing programs have been built on the notion that contemporary music can embrace elements of rock, jazz and world music.

Many river-crossing shield tunnels have been built, resulting in numerous structural waterproofing measures including multichannel technology (consisting of segment automatic waterproofing, coating the segment with external waterproofing), joint waterproofing, grouting hole and bolt hole waterproofing, backfill grouting, and shield tail paste-filling waterproofing [47, 48].