Sentence examples for section of canal from inspiring English sources
Worn out by his labours, he died while executing the final section of canal down to the port of Cette (modern Sète) at the Mediterranean terminus.
Three years ago, a four-mile section of canal was completed at a cost of £6m - the first new waterway to be built since the Manchester Ship canal opened in 1894 - linking the Lancaster canal with the rest of the canal network.
A section of canal in Stroud has been refilled with water as construction work on a new bridge nears completion.
In weeks, 40 voles were captured, along with 20 more on an old section of canal running through Studley Grange.
"On a 560m (1,840ft) section of canal, we assumed a population of around 45 to 50 voles and caught around 40 animals - which is a decent number".
To calculate the representative land-use fraction of each sampling location, the contributing area was defined using an uni-directional 1 km vector line-buffer around the 'upstream' section of canal.
In L-shaped canals, points 0 to 2 corresponded to the apical section, points 3 to 7 to the curved section, and points 8 to 9 to the straight section of canals.
In order to complete the project in a year, the Egyptian government hired six international firms – including companies based in the US, Belgium, and the Netherlands – to dig new sections of canal and dredge the existing waterways.
Above Pontyates, two more locks were built, followed by an inclined plane with a rise of 52 feet at Capel Ifan, one with a rise of 53 feet at Pont Henry, and a third with a rise of 85 feet at Hirwaunissa, with level sections of canal in between.
The Central Everglades plan seeks to get more water flowing south toward Everglades National Park by removing portions of levees, filling in sections of canals and boosting pumping capacity.
In the 19th century a series of disastrous floods broke the dikes of the Huang He (which began to shift to its present northern course), caused great problems in the section of the canal between Xuzhou and Huaiyin, and cut across the canal between Linqing and Jining.
