Sentence examples for several catastrophic from inspiring English sources

Historically, several catastrophic floods of the Brisbane River have occurred, notably in 1893 and 1974.

The city, a former mill town, has seen several catastrophic fires.

Over the years, several catastrophic collapses of truss structures have been reported.

Now mandated on all large transport aircraft, TCAS has been in operation for over a decade and has been credited with preventing several catastrophic accidents.

The world's first commercial jetliner, the Comet, experienced several catastrophic failures leading to fatalities in the 1950s; again the cause was stress concentration occurring at poorly executed joints.

Several catastrophic events in the process industry have caused extensive damage to life and property and have forever changed the process safety landscape.

In the nineteen-sixties, the country experienced several nearly catastrophic famines.

Several other catastrophic earthquakes have occurred along the same fault system in Algeria.

This followed several highly publicized catastrophic incidents (e.g., Phillips 66 Pasadena, Texas polyethylene plant explosion, 1989; Piper Alpha, North Sea, 1988 and Bhopal, India, 1984).

Our investigations outline that throughout the Hesperian age, Ares Vallis and its valley arms had been sculpted by several, time-scattered, catastrophic floods, originating from Iani, Hydaspis and Aram Chaos.

"Females only breed once every 7-8 yearso so losing an individual, let alone several, can be catastrophic for a population," Zimmerman said.