Sentence examples for range of stone from inspiring English sources

Maybe the air is thin, or the exhaust fumes go to your head, but you get up there and begin seeing the city in epic clichés: it is a canyon of skyscrapers, a galaxy of streetlights, a river of traffic, a mountain range of stone and steel.

"We simply do not know when the first human settlers moved south of the ice sheets," Dr. Fagan concluded, noting that the archaeological record now showed the migration to be "an untidy process of rapid colonization, by people acquiring foods in many ways, who used a broad range of stone and wooden artifacts and, also occasionally, bone tools to survive".

Echoing the sculptor's appetite for experimenting with materials, the building is made from an eclectic range of stone, wood, steel and glass.Inside the largest room is a full-scale polystyrene maquette for a complicated sculpture titled "Hedges", a work that reveals the artist's fascination with the relationship between natural and man-made forms.

While there is considerable diversity in the exterior facades of buildings, including the interior lobby will often give the teacher a wider range of stone types.

For humans, the distribution and design of prehistoric tools appear to be correlated with both the quality and quantity of available raw materials [ 38], although recent experiments revealed that it is possible, in principle, to produce similar stone tools from a range of stone types [ 39].

"There are a huge range of stones.

While development of nonfield-based investigation has contributed substantially to our understanding of processes, the wide range of environments, stone types, and climatic variability encountered raises issues of temporal and spatial scales too complex to fit into attempts at universal modeling.

The absorption coefficient by capillarity of Aflenzer stone are within the wide range of other stones used for salt sampling, e.g. c. 115 g m−2 s−0.5 for Ançã limestone [10]; c. 15.36 g m−2 s−0.5 for Moca Creme stone or 10.8 g m−2 s−0.5 for Semi-rijo stone of Portugal [23].

Precious stones were not used, but a wide range of semiprecious stones was exploited: carnelian, amethyst, garnet, red and yellow jasper, lapis lazuli, feldspar, turquoise, agate.

One boy had some of his seven beads strung into jewelry; the other had collected a wide range of valuable stones and odd knickknacks, from lapis lazuli from Afghanistan to a lump of plant resin.

The results can be applied to a broad range of load bearing stone elements such as columns, beams and vaults.