Sentence examples for excavated about from inspiring English sources
When crews excavated about 2 30 A.M. yesterday, they worsened the pipe's condition, Mr. Sturcken said.
In the following 18 months Rassam excavated about 170 chambers surrounding the temple and found 40,000 to 50,000 inscribed cylinders and tablets.
"He excavated about two dozen larvae, which is small for an insect population, but that's all we were comfortable taking," Dr. Goldstein said.
Two bluestone quarries, named Carn Goedog and Craig Rhos-y-felin, were excavated about 3,000 B.C., according to the authors of a study published this week in the journal Antiquity.
The site, at Shepherd Avenue, had been excavated about 8too 9 feet deep, stretching below the ground floor of the adjacent residential building, where an extended family of seven lived in apartments.
Madeleine Burnside, executive director of Mr. Fisher's maritime society, said her archaeologists and researchers had excavated about half of the 500 or so artifacts from the ship and made extensive studies of the wreck site.
Last summer, Baker and her students took a trip south, expecting to excavate about two dozen migrant remains; instead, they recovered about 120.
The state Health Services Department recently approved another plan to excavate about 30,000 tons of additional "lightly contaminated" soil that is not considered hazardous, said Jim Smith, manager of the department's toxic-substance control division.
Under that design — in use at only one, much smaller plant in Japan — contractors would excavate about 25 acres of the offshore seabed and install a grid of perforated collection pipes beneath layers of sand and gravel.
The current projected cost for removing all contaminated soil at the complex is $40 million, with the Building 650 hot spot accounting for about a tenth of the volume to be excavated, or about $4 million of the total cost.
One, that although most of the city of Pompeii has been excavated, only about a quarter or twenty-fivetwenty-fivepercentty of Hercityneum has been excavated.
