Sentence examples for transit began from inspiring English sources

The transit began at 9 19 a.m., about an hour and a quarter after the bombing.

New York City Transit began investigating after an audit revealed discrepancies.

New York City Transit began kindly informing passengers how long they would have to wait until the next train.

The confusion between the views of rider and railroad seems to stretch back to the days when mass transit began.

Telescopes around the world — and up in space — turned sunward as the roughly seven-hour transit began at 6 03 p.m. Eastern time.

As Christmas wore on, and forecasts became darker, Thomas F. Prendergast, the president of New York City Transit, began attending meetings with officials from the Bloomberg administration and the Office of Emergency Management.

The group attributed the improvements in cleanliness to moves by New York City Transit, beginning in 1999, to devote more resources to the problem.

"In Transit" begins with a cacophony of noises and images from the New York subway (the favored setting for a number of recent shows), and a lament that there are "eight million souls so busy rushing around/ Blind to the beauty of the moment and deaf to the sound".

If its precise position can be measured from different points on the Earth, for example by timing the moments when the transit begins and ends, then calculations can reveal Venus' true distance and, hence, that of the Sun and the scale of the solar system.

As the technique to analyse light to discover information about a planet's atmosphere only first showed results in 2001, this was the first opportunity to gain conclusive results in this way on the atmosphere of Venus since observation of solar transits began.

Morning transits of the ISS continue for London until 5 August, with evening transits beginning on 4 August and continuing until about 25 August.