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A wall collapsed while the building was under construction.

the only nuclear power station that is under construction in Britain

Oline Archer never liked her husband's construction business.

Uh huh…exactly! In fact, the evidence shows that one of the greatest periods of construction in the city occurred during the Postclassic.

Plus, well, the equipment is all set up, you know, the scaffolding is up on that side of the building and……oh it just won’t be practical to have the construction workers move everything to another side and leave a whole side of the library all torn out like that.

After ten or twelve stories, masonry construction reaches a maximum possible height, since it runs into difficulties of compression and of inadequate lateral strength to combat wind shear.

Steel construction, on the other hand, can support a building of 50 or 100 stories without difficulty.

Updated and electrified versions of the freight elevator that had been introduced by Elisha Graves Otis in 1853 (several decades before skyscraper construction) solved this problem.

A structure built with steel beams protected by terra-cotta tiles was still three times lighter than a comparably sized building that used masonry construction, so the weight of the tiles was not a problem.

Another way they kept construction prices down was to train workers who went from house to house doing a specific task, sort of like an assembly line.

In the early 1950's, their designs became a model for suburb construction throughout the country. 

The answer lies in the construction of the nest.

No one said anything about construction.

Construction started in 2547 B.C.E., about 4500 years ago.

To get that perfection, the engineers must have had to measure it repeatedly during construction.

Well, if you got a ramp spiraling up from the base of the Pyramid, those corners would be buried by that ramp during construction.

Such activities had a major effect on the local area, in particular with the construction of infrastructure such as roads, which improved access to remote areas.

Materials and methods of construction are integral parts of the design of architecture structures.

Enormous changes in materials and techniques of construction within the last few generations have made it possible to enclose space with much greater ease and speed and with a minimum of material.

The construction of a just system of criminal justice is very important for the development of society.

With the exception of teak, this is the finest wood for boat construction.

Quincy wants a job in construction.

The Shakers believed that furniture should be plain, simple, useful, practical, and of sound construction.

The chairs were light in construction yet extremely strong.

The floors are of timber construction.

You've probably seen the building under construction.

He put the wrong construction on her remarks.

They put a sympathetic construction on her behaviour.