Sentence examples for had been construction from inspiring English sources

The room was small, foggy with dust, ripe with the smell of chemical reagents (there had been construction recently in the alley), poorly painted.

Perhaps the industry hardest hit so far has been construction equipment.

There have been construction workers taking breaks from walking steel beams, wandering tourists and people who spend their working hours in nearby skyscrapers.

Mr. Erdogan's signature success has been construction projects, from public residential building to infrastructure projects and expensive megaprojects like bridges and mosques.

Aboard the planes have been construction materials, medical supplies, office supplies and spare parts, Todd said.

He had been working construction, intermittently, since Hurricane Katrina.

Before the war he had been a construction contractor in Lebanon.

They have filled buildings — homes, schools, mosques — that were left vacant or had been under construction.

He had been a construction worker, was laid off during the Depression and founded Bianco & Pepe.

The highway bridge, which had been under construction, collapsed seconds before the train hit it.

He had been in construction for 30-plus years.