Sentence examples for lock near from inspiring English sources

If it's been floating then it could have come from Cowley [Lock, near Uxbridge in north-west London].

More pleasure boats are using the lock near Clyde -- traffic rose by 8percentt between 1997 and 1999 -- but fewer than 1,100 cruised through last year.

Rowing boats, steam launches, even the occasional gondola: in the Season, up to 800 vessels a day passed through Boulter's Lock near Maidenhead.

It takes a veteran captain with river skills and a feel for inches to navigate this lock near East Alton, Ill.

Starting from Boulter's Lock near Maidenhead, you take the Thames Path to the delightful village of Cookham, made famous by the eccentric English artist Stanley Spencer.

The main defense of the Cotentin, however, was natural: the flooding of lowlands and marshes, as controlled by a lock near the mouth of the Douve River at La Barquette, just north of Carentan.

Locks near the river's mouth enable ships to navigate to the major riparian cities of Winnipeg (Man).

One of the very best is the Admiral Nelson at the locks near the entry to the Braunston tunnel.

ESR signals of spin-probe molecules dissolved in oil or "locked" near the carbonate surfaces are different because of the different molecular mobility.

Locks near the river's mouth enable ships to navigate to the major riparian cities of Winnipeg (Man.) and Grand Forks and Fargo (N.D.).

The locks near the west end of the canal, which overcome the difference of 26 feet (8 metres) between water levels, can accommodate ships up to 760 feet (230 metres) long; the locks are maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.