Sentence examples for dam about from inspiring English sources

The river was considerably widened by the construction of a dam about 50 miles (80 km) downstream.

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The dam, about 500 yards wide and about as tall as a four-story building, will cost the equivalent of about $5 million.

The ancient dam, about 1,800 feet (550 metres) long and pyramidal in cross section, was of fine stone-and-masonry construction, with sluice gates to control the flow of water.

The water was flowing from the bottom of a dam about nine miles upstream at 650 cubic feet per second, and its temperature was a chilling 54 degrees Fahrenheit.

Electricity rates rocketed about 400percentt after an avalanche on April 16 destroyed several major transmission towers that delivered more than 80percentt of the city's power from a hydroelectric dam about 40 miles south.

Grouting of the west dam took about two years to complete and required 189 mile of grout holes.

The Limpopo River is dammed about 62 miles (100 km) from its mouth near Guijá, where an agricultural settlement has been developed.

A large part of landslide dams (about 65%%) fail by overtopping or piping within one month of their formation, in agreement with what reported by Costa and Schuster (1991) and Ermini (2000), while about 20%% of the total are stable for over a year and almost 10%% for over 10 years.

What if we built underground dams, about a mile wide, a mile deep and a mile underground?

Tells about the collapse of the dam and about the end of his father's life, 43 years later.