Sentence examples for were first dug from inspiring English sources

The ditches were first dug during the Depression to drain wetlands of standing water where mosquitoes can breed.

While I have independently confirmed the facts in this column, a lot of the distortions were first dug up by Darcie Cimarusti, an opponent of the charter school.

The women had changed into boots.This awareness of time is closely associated with a rice-growing calendar that has helped to shape Japan's identity since paddy fields were first dug from the landscape about 2,400 years ago.

They had been wrongly classified when they were first dug up.

The study relates the stories of different groups named after the archeological sites where their bones were first dug up.

Silchester, on a low hill near Basingstoke in Hampshire, was first dug up by the Victorians.

A waterway called the Ring Canal was first dug around the lake in order to receive the water and to accommodate shipping, which the lake had previously carried.

About the only thing the various plaintiffs and their teams of lawyers agree on is this: the Bahia Emerald was first dug up by two Brazilian miners, Ruy Saraiva Filho and Elson Alves Ribereiro, in 2001, and was taken into custody seven years later by US police investigating a claim of theft.

He lives more than half a mile from the closest main road, near a concrete remnant of the hoist house from the Peters Mine, which was first dug around 1740 and eventually grew to seventeen levels, extending nearly two thousand feet below the ground.

The land for the amphitheater was first dug in late 1923, and construction continued off and on for the next five years whenever financing, building materials, and labor were available.

"When we were first digging we were looking for drums with good hits with air around them, and strings," says B+ (Brian Cross), an L.A.-based photographer/filmmaker/DJ who first discovered Axelrod while eyeballing records at a Goodwill in Culver City.