Sentence examples for old spans from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, travelers across the region yesterday were left to ponder the events in Minneapolis as some stepped more cautiously than others across majestic old spans.

Most experts agree that a stronger quake, most likely along the San Andreas or the Hayward fault, in the East Bay, could cause a total collapse of the old span.

The third structure, a rail bridge completed in 1997, was built adjacent to the first bridge and replaced the old span.

These shifting specifications added greatly to time and cost, obliterating the justification that had led politicians to choose to build a new bridge in the first place: that it would cost about the same amount as retrofitting the old span to be safer in earthquakes.

Keeping the current bridge would delay work on the replacement because construction plans rely on accessing the area of the old span, she said.

And out from the murky depths of that gloomy quagmire rose a bridge — a CEO's bridge — an old span of planks once home to all manner of creepy crawlies, now traversed by the bipedal creepy crawlies of Wall Street.

The artist would like to see his troll remain in its protective role on the old span until the dangerous work of demolition is done, and then be moved to the new bridge.

Heikal, an effortlessly urbane 78-year-old, spans those worlds and unpicks the hypocrisies of each.

According to the National Bridge Inventory database, this means that the bridge "has one or more structural defects that require attention". In Nebraska, older spans make up 60percentt of deficient bridges — 1 in 5 bridges were built in the early 1930s.

Takenaka now has a lustful eye on the U.S., where massive expenditures loom for repair of decades-old spans.

The authority is paving the older span of the bridge.