Sentence examples for wave of building from inspiring English sources

Construction of new subway routes into the neighborhood in the late 1890's set off a new wave of building.

One school of thought says the current wave of building coal plants will be the end of the line in Europe.

This treatment of 84th as a backyard retarded elite development on the block, but by 1900 the shortage of land near Central Park brought a wave of building.

His innovations contributed to a wave of building vast public sea-life exhibits that began in the 1980's and still continues.

Although the local area was identified as being in the first wave of building work, of the seven secondary schools in the area Willowfield is one of two not to have been included in the work so far.

Such a wave of building in the mid- and late 1980's prolonged the downturn of the early 1990's by bringing large blocks of new office space to a market where demand was dropping.

Great St Helens is being transformed into an outdoor sculpture gallery that will complement the new wave of buildings that have shot up around Norman Foster's Gherkin over the past decade.

"Singapore must be one of the few places in the world where a statutory board satisfactorily completed everything it set out to do in its first five-year plan," says the narrator of a triumphant 1965 Singapore Ministry of Culture-produced newsreel on the HDB's first wave of buildings.

The first great wave of buildings came with the Romanesque period (800-1200), examples of which include Trier Cathedral, the churches of Cologne and the chapel of Charlemagne's palace in Aachen.

"There had been a wave of intelligence building up on quite a strong basis," one Western official said.

Intel, once a pace-setter and leader in the computing industry on the strength of its processors, has lost some momentum amid a new wave of companies building processors for mobile and other next-generation devices.