Sentence examples for like quarry from inspiring English sources

Even in 1820, as the industrial revolution in Britain was gathering pace, the two Asian giants still accounted for half the world's GDP.The spread of purpose-built manufactories like Quarry Bank Mill separated economic power and population, increasingly so as the West got richer.

Like Quarry's, stone is useless in the game.

He said other extractive industry jobs like quarrying, particularly in Nuneaton, have nearly all gone.

They pass through more disconcerting smells – "the sweet black odor of rotten meat", "the odor of human excrement" – and on to something that looks like a quarry.

The sound of rural American music was a major factor in the British skiffle craze that yielded groups like the Quarry Men, John Lennon's first band.

Identification of erosion hotspots like the quarry using rapid, event-wise measures of suspended sediment yield will help efforts to mitigate sediment stress and restore coral reefs.

In a hunt that makes the proverbial needle in a haystack look like easy quarry, scientists have begun the search for remains of a suspected meteor which lit up the skies over the south-western US this week.

"Especially since they re-opened the Portland quarry, I like to see real stone for replacement," said Ivan Myjer, a stone conservator from Boston who directed the restoration at St .John the Divine in New York City.

For the tests, scientists will wire up the machines with portable air monitors and run the rigs through simulated work environments, like rock quarries and landfills.

Large, expertly made color images by a Canadian photographer show industrial subjects like marble quarries in India, a tire dump in California and modern development in China.

The increasingly complex territories of our times lead us to analyse edge areas, that have been excluded or are at the margins, like abandoned quarries and sites rich in memory, which conserve an archaeological identity in themselves, understood as a deep, archaic dimension.