Sentence examples for great block of from inspiring English sources

I had a great block of training in Australia.

On one of the boarded-up, ruined terraces in Toxteth stands a great block of granite.

At Jameson's Drift it enters the wide, open Tugela Trough, at the eastern end of which it cuts deeply through a great block of sandstone to issue onto the coastal plain.

But this great block of military power was soon split by imperialist ambitions, and the Boeotian League itself destroyed Orchomenus (364) and intervened in the Achaean League (366) and Arcadian League (362).

The 14-line poem, a meditation on the impact of the finding of Richard's remains, includes the line "grant me the carving of my name" – fulfilled in the inscription on the coffin made by Richard's 16th great nephew, Ibsen, and the dark limestone surround of the great block of Swaledale stone that will become his tomb.

And that created a berg of several thousand square kilometres". Halley's mobility means it should not be anywhere near this great block of ice when it cuts free.

It is a bit like a sculptor who starts off with a great big block of marble.

The Red Sea lies in a fault depression that separates two great blocks of Earth's crust Arabia and North Africa.

Yet digital publishing is weakening its monopoly.Publishers who were in at the beginning got great blocks of ISBNs.

I like to cover great blocks of books: all the Martins, all the Cornwells, all the Jameses.

Eggers has done a remarkable job of approximating the voice of Deng, turning great blocks of fact into the lost boy's own story.