Sentence examples for miles of retaining from inspiring English sources

A 12 mile section of roadway features the No Name Tunnel, Hanging Lake Tunnel, Reverse Curve Tunnel, 40 bridges and viaducts, and miles of retaining walls.

In addition to completing the northbound "high-occupancy vehicle" link between Orange County and the San Fernando Valley, the project called for building new on- and offramps, demolishing and rebuilding three bridges, and adding miles of retaining and sound walls.

Additionally, 0.7 mile of retaining walls sustained damage, leaving areas vulnerable to flooding from future storms.

The final design included 40 bridges and viaducts, three additional tunnel bores (two were completed before construction was stopped in the 1960s) and 15 mile of retaining walls for a stretch of freeway 12 mile long.

The next year, Cantrell decided to make the Barkley more difficult by creating a 100-mile race, currently consisting of five 20-mile loops, while retaining a 60-mile Fun Run.

Long Branch, a city of 5.1 square miles, has retained a more representative racial mix, with 73.5percentt of the population white, compared with 35percentt in Asbury Park.

Chico, a college town set at the foot of the Sierra Nevada about 90 miles north of Sacramento, retains some of its hippie vibe — a municipal ordinance bans the possession of nuclear weapons, and home-brews and homegrown are part of the local ethos.

According to Metro, in addition to the 10-mile HOV lane extension the Pass construction project will replace the Skirball Center, Sunset Blvd and Mulholland Drive bridges; realign a couple of dozen off ramps, widen underpasses and build 18 miles of sound barriers and retaining walls making LA look even more like the border between San Diego and Tijuana.

Unlike Hawaii and other remote island archipelagos, the Galápagos, 600 miles off Ecuador, retains 95percentt of its original species and all of its birds.

We wanted to leave civilization behind, so we caught a flight to Ouvéa, one of the less-developed Loyalty Islands, four raised atolls 60 miles northeast that retain much of the Kanak, or local, culture.

The barrier island, seven miles long and one mile wide, retains its natural wilderness and sense of remoteness because you can get there only by boat.