Sentence examples for size of rubble from inspiring English sources

This study examined the performance of different sizes and properties (i.e. height of vertical wall and tetrapod size) of rubble mound breakwaters on reducing the overtopping discharge.

The earthquake demolished many of these houses; in the villages we visited, the only difference between rich and poor seemed to be the size of their piles of rubble.

The formula can be used to determine the required rock size in the toe of rubble mound breakwaters within the ranges of the performed tests.

He can only interpret things through your response, by the size of the pile of rubble.

In the midst of an area of rubble the size of two football pitches in the last of these areas, we meet three brothers standing on what was once the four-storey building in which their families lived in four apartments.

Mr. Ordan, 55, who began working at the club as a teenager as a lifeguard, looked at a huge pile of concrete rubble half the size of a football field, piled in the parking lot.

There is film of great parades and receptions and there are accounts, oral and on film, of disasters: a cosmonaut and his redesigned space capsule reduced on re-entry to smoking rubble because the size of the parachute container was not increased when the parachute size was; the parachute never deployed.

After 10 minutes or so through puddles and mud, walking between the rails of the old mine-cart track, he pointed his arm and his headlamp beam to a pile of sheared rock the size of a dining room table — scrap rubble from the blast into the tunnel wall revealing the Charly, there in the darkness beyond.

In a few areas whole swaths toppled, leaving gaping spaces the size of a soccer field filled with building rubble and junk.

A camera lowered into the void revealed a cinder block room, the size of a small tenement apartment, with bookcases, rubble and a locked door.

Mountains of rubble remain.