Sentence examples for half construction from inspiring English sources

In about a year and a half construction is planned to begin on a new collection of residences near a winery.

It survives as a monument of the mind: half ruin and half construction site, the receiver and transmitter of confused messages regarding modernity, communism and the utopian dreams of the century gone by.

We have the resources: a million-and-a-half construction workers are sitting idle, and putting them to work would help the economy as a whole recover from its slump.

Construction accounts for almost 5percentt of the United States economy, and residential building makes up half of construction spending.

A reduction of at least one-third in cost and one-half in construction time over the next two decades was foreseen, and it was proposed that social and environmental costs be included in estimates as well as construction costs.

Half the construction costs of the new £10 million building have been met by the MRC.

Of 323 flights scheduled in a recent 17-week period, half carried construction material.

Aggregate accounts for more than half of construction materials by weight, and for every new home an average of 60 tons is required.

Any day now, a new fence will slice the Brooklyn Banks roughly in half, giving construction crews a staging area for trucks and equipment until 2014.

He also questioned Broad's claim that the use of prefab modules would cut in half the construction costs for Sky City, to $1.5 billion.

"For us, it was a business decision," said Mr. da Silva, who expects to raise about half the construction cost through the cash-for-visa program.