Sentence examples for decades of construction from inspiring English sources
About 50 miles south of here, in the city of Kamaishi, the world's deepest breakwater was completed two years ago after three decades of construction, at a cost of $1.5 billion.
And now that after decades of construction, with its large cost overruns and charges of fraud, the Big Dig is finally done, replacing that hulking, traffic-clogged, elevated Central Artery with an underground highway, the North End, along with the waterfront, is newly accessible.
The Capitol, finished in 1899 after three decades of construction in multiple architectural styles, is a National Historic Landmark, but it had become so dilapidated in recent years that construction workers could fit their fists through the holes in the red terra cotta roof.
This is all the more surprising since both Camden council and Hillingdon council, in their submissions to the committee, pointed out the tremendous impact on the local environment and on the health and wellbeing of large numbers of people that will be caused by years, even decades, of construction and disturbance.
The factory's private owners said three months ago that after several decades of construction, it will be ready to open in October, as part of a government-supported effort to create special fuel for the country's future nuclear power plants.
The eighth-largest mosque in the world, it opened in 2007 after a decade of construction.
After a decade of construction, Iran's main enrichment plant, at Natanz, operates at a tiny fraction of its capacity.
After a decade of construction, the stage-one watercourse was completed at a total cost of $3.8 billion.
The city has balked at rising costs and lost nearly a decade of construction in the 1970s.
Moreover, Forest City's calculations appear to reflect only a modest increase in costs over roughly a decade of construction.
AFTER hundreds of studies, copious debate, and a decade of construction, the waters are finally rising behind China's huge new Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze river.
