Sentence examples for intervals abandoned from inspiring English sources

For at least 10,000 years the human race has, at regular and officially sanctioned intervals, abandoned the hard diurnal grind of work and taken to the streets.

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich 240pp, Granta, £16.99 For at least 10,000 years the human race has, at regular and officially sanctioned intervals, abandoned the hard diurnal grind of work and taken to the streets.

Two or three acres of soil are used twice or thrice for 2 years in four year intervals and then abandoned because of the land's exhaustion, leaving a destroyed habitat.

Stalin-era prison camps, long abandoned, appeared at regular intervals along the road.

The match was abandoned after the tea interval when Instonians said they would only resume play under protest in the wake of the alleged incident involving White.

Three days had passed since they were last there; during that interval the place appeared to have been abandoned.

The estimated values for the parameters were abandoned, because of the wide associated 95% confidence intervals, therefore only the estimates for the RLUmin value are represented.

Thereafter, it was abandoned until the 20th century, except for a brief interval during the Crusades; the Arabs called the mountain Al-Sabba ("The Accursed").

The road to Lightning Flat went through desolate country past a dozen abandoned ranches distributed over the plain at eight- and ten-mile intervals, houses sitting blank-eyed in the weeds, corral fences down.

This interval is the only period when calcic soil horizons formed on stable abandoned alluvial surfaces in the southern Negev Desert.

I've read and heard that many Vietnamese felt abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War — I highly recommend Frank Snepp's book "Decent Interval," about the last days of the Americans in Saigon.