Sentence examples for lost electricity for from inspiring English sources

On Saturday, the country lost electricity for eight hours.

His town lost electricity for a month, and access to the internet for three months.

And more than 60,000 homes, from Long Island to Hartford, lost electricity for at least part of the day because of downed power lines.

The gas pumps need electricity, and large sections of Baghdad lost electricity for almost three days two weeks ago, contributing to the problem.

A day after more than 11,000 people in New York City and Westchester lost electricity for as much as seven hours, state regulators questioned yesterday whether Consolidated Edison has done enough to repair and maintain its labyrinth of cables and transformers.

Half of India lost electricity for a second day on Tuesday as the country's power grid collapsed unable to meet demand.

Losing electricity for a day or two every week or a for few hours every other day is so much a part of living in India that there is a dedicated word for the phenomenon: "load-shedding".

Utilities fired up conventional power stations to make up for lost electricity generation.

Mr. Roberts said that while perhaps 75percentt of residents lost electricity during the hurricane for at least a few hours, service would be restored to most people within a week.

Many factories in the country's export-oriented eastern provinces are already losing electricity from the grid during the daytime for one to three days a week.

Utility companies in Illinois said the lights were back on for most of about 140,000 customers who lost electricity Saturday.