Sentence examples for massive drainage from inspiring English sources

The canal served two purposes: first, as a means of transporting goods and people to and from the plantation; and second, it served as a massive drainage ditch as the slaves of Somerset Place worked to drain the surrounding swamps.

The massive drainage of wetlands (Brinson and Malvárez 2002), and intensive use of pesticides in farmland (Geiger et al. 2010) across Western Europe, may have reduced the number of vectors, either by directly reducing vector populations or by indirectly reducing the size of other host bird populations (Donald et al. 2001; Stoate et al. 2009).

In the US, developers drain murky land and build massive houses around drainage bogs.

Seeking to create more developable area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the city installed massive pumps and drainage systems to empty them.

"We've had massive issues with drainage, flooding and damp in the bathrooms.

However, on the 19th day after operation, he suffered from sudden onset of hematemesis and massive fresh blood drainage from the T-tube choledochostomy.

The cite damage to watersheds, the neglect of drainage systems and massive squatter colonies living in danger zones, which made a chaotic city of 15 million people far more vulnerable to floods.

As Rom's centrepiece hinted, these seemingly new skatepark shapes had their origins elsewhere – in domestic swimming pools (which Californian skaters would drain, often without the owner's consent), in the banked slopes of Los Angeles schoolyards, or in the massive pipes, ditches and other drainage works that skaters had found in the Californian landscape.

Another 11 patients had CSF leakage according to a massive amount of clear fluid drainage postoperatively.

A contrast CT scan showed a massive left hemothorax, and a drainage tube was quickly inserted into the chest.

In our series, all of the patients had either CSF leakage noted during the operation or from massive amounts of clear fluid drainage postoperatively.