Sentence examples for millions of bricks from inspiring English sources

"It was a huge undertaking, requiring millions of bricks and, obviously, large numbers of laborers".

At the Pavilion, which has needed only some of its bricks replaced, the owner, Glenwood, decided to use glazed brick to maintain the historic accuracy of its look, committing to constant vigilance over the condition of the millions of bricks there, Mr. Zimmerman said.

With eyes on the dramatic Black Friday scuffles in millions of bricks-and-mortar stores, millions of bargain hunters are also trying their luck on the internet.

In 1887, Robertson completed the Young Women's Christian Association, at 7 East 15th Street, of brick mixed with rocky-surfaced brownstone, the heavy half-round arches along the ground floor visually supporting the great weight of masonry above.

Since the mid-19th century the manufacture of bricks has shifted from an old to a new system.

Get your bearings The bull ring (4) at Calle Xàtiva 28 (00 34 96 3519315; plazadetorosdevalencia.com ), a 19th-century amphitheatre of brick and bloodshed, is an obvious spot for discerning your location.

A new, elegantly simple boathouse has been designed, and a 19th-century complex of brick and glass buildings, including a derelict slaughterhouse and greenhouse, are now being renovated to house art studios and a dance theater.

It is a brackish water-filled former clay pit, which had been mined in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the manufacture of bricks and tiles.

(If you've come this far, after lunch walk around the corner to St . Pauls Church, a massive pile of bricks on West 22nd Place; it once rivaled the skyscrapers of the Loop).

During the 18th century, the dovecote was substantially rebuilt, leaving only the original first few rows of bricks.

The South Plainfield fire chief, Tom Scalera, also said investigators had determined that the early-morning inferno began in the kitchen and that all five victims died inside a single bedroom directly above it, in a 19th-century home made of brick and wood.