Sentence examples for on shore for from inspiring English sources

MacInnes still has a job, helping to maintain BMW Oracle's trimaran, which is a huge and complicated sailing machine, one that requires an estimated 200 to 300 man-hours of work on shore for every hour of sailing.

Mr. Sepulvado was not aboard the rig at the time of the explosion because he was on shore for a blowout preventer training program.

But tightened port security after 9/11, a much greater reliance on the Internet and fewer hours on shore for sailors have chipped away at what, 20 years ago, was a crowded hub for seamen from Argentina to Yemen.

I put the engines up as we had moored in quite shallow waters, went on shore for a picnic and when we got back to the boat it had nearly sunk.

(He had cemented this reputation by filleting the fish and whipping up sweet-and-sour walleye on shore for lunch).

Females remain with their pups on shore for 10 days and nurse them.

For the freshwater component of the study, individual fish were rapidly recovered from the drift gill net by hand and placed in on-board, aerated holding totes containing ambient freshwater, then transferred to holding totes on-shore for sampling.

Thousands of bodies washed up on shores for days after the disaster, water pipes were uprooted, hand pumps broken, and survivors were forced into crowded relief camps with inadequate potable water and toilet facilities.

Last year such agitation managed to halve Nigeria's on-shore production for several months.The oil companies are chary of anything that suggests the oil belongs to anyone except the Nigerian government.

Each one, as another reporter, for a local Fox affiliate, described, sounded "like a fish on shore gulping for air".

Dee Wertz was on shore waiting for the ferry and saw the impact.