Sentence examples for miles of canals from inspiring English sources
"My country has sixty thousand miles of canals," he said.
There are in Louisiana ten thousand miles of canals.
It involves building hundreds of reservoirs and digging more than 600 miles of canals.
Opened in 1905, his themed community had 16 miles of canals, gondolas, arcades and camel rides.
Its streets are a labyrinth of subdevelopments and strip malls, interlaced with more than four hundred miles of canals.
Today, that project, called the Gezira Scheme, has thousands of miles of canals irrigating nearly 2.5 million acres of farms.
Day and night, water managers type and click, banking or moving water through 1,800 miles of canals and gates and pipes and valves.
It turned out this particular 61 miles of canal we had chosen included an astounding 72 locks.
Evans is lost in admiration for his local Wendover Arm trust, which is reopening 6.7 miles of canal in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire.
Over half a century, the group has led the rescue of 87 miles of canal and river navigation between Bristol and Reading, winning grants including £25m from the National Lottery.
The city, which famously (if improbably) claims to have more miles of canal than Venice, has managed to develop the Gas Street Basin in a way which is sensitive to the city's industrial heritage.
