Sentence examples for extensive digging from inspiring English sources

Attempts to find a "Nazi gold train" in Poland appear to have been dashed after treasure hunters admitted that they had found "no train, no tunnel" following extensive digging.

In the last two years, according to a former senior Pentagon official, intelligence services have observed "extensive digging" in Iran as nuclear engineers rushed to construct hidden production facilities.

A one-day archaeological study on the property recently concluded that no more extensive digging was needed, Mr. Hughes said.

After one period of extensive digging, Baskerville's body was found by workmen beneath a pile of gravel.

But 2.23 miles of pipeline in the ocean will be laid by traditional methods, requiring extensive digging, the company said.

In Kiruna, for example – a Swedish town that's been exploiting its iron ore resources since the 1800s – a huge crack caused by extensive digging is now moving towards the suburbs and threatening to swallow up thousands of homes.

(Extensive digs in the mid-1960s Britishish archaeologists helped establish that the island was a longtime colony of Minoan Crete).

The most extensive dig was on Torcello, an island in the lagoon about a half hour's boat ride from Venice.

The number of illegal excavations and thefts has worsened to the point that groups are organizing heavy machinery to carry out extensive digs.

If anything is more intriguing than the nature of religious attitudes in the ancient world, it is the irresistible attraction that Europe suddenly felt to its artifacts when extensive digs began to be carried out in the 15th century in Tuscany, the land of the ancient Etruscans.

The juveniles are rarely seen in the wild, and are poorly known, although they are known to be capable of digging extensive burrows.