Sentence examples for mortar about from inspiring English sources

The Romans developed a standard formula for making this mortar about 2,000 years ago.

This is the only technique they had access to, and it must have been the desire for this kind of grand construction that drove them to the invention of mortar about 125 years later".

This division, by now, has become staggeringly boring; arguments between the two camps attempting to define jazz still flare up periodically, though they turned into intellectual mortar about 10 years ago.

A method, coupling Particle-Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) and colorimetry, is proposed to determine the amount of pigments transferred from the casting mould and to quantify their adhesion onto the surface of coloured mortar about 4 weeks after demoulding.

Most of the archway components were found embedded in mortar, about 20cm (8ins) underground.

The results showed that hybridization of fibres in the quantities 1.5% steel fibres + 0.25% palm fibres + 0.25% Barchip fibres, improved the compressive strength and flexural toughness significantly, and also enhanced the splitting tensile strength and flexural strength of the mortar by about 44% and 140%, respectively.

Keep your shooting defences (except mortars) about 4 - 6 squares away from the edge of your village.

In an effort to bolster the strength of White's 11th MSF Company, Shungel sent a mortar platoon of about 35 Montagnard CIDG out from Khâm Đức to reinforce the small garrison at Ngok Tavak during the last days of April.

These efforts are not about obliterating the past through bricks and mortar, but about creating a future that will survive another hundred years.

"How could you expect someone who makes bricks and mortar understand about automation?" Mr. Haag asked.

Limestone sand and blast furnace slag sand can restrain the drying shrinkage of mortar specimens about 22%and30%0%, respectively, compared to the case of mortar incorporating standard sand.