coffer dam in a sentence

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1. A few years later Denny Corbin found a pair of eyeglasses while digging to enforce a coffer dam in the woods behind the lodge.
2. Work commenced on a protective coffer dam until 1940, with total costs of construction coming to ?0, 000 ( equivalent to ?.5m today ).
3. Tearing down the 81.5-meter-tall ( 250-foot-tall ) coffer dam will take an army of bulldozers and cranes five months to finish, the report said.
4. James Spedding was employed in 1805 to construct coffer dams to allow the wing walls at the ends of the canal to be built.
5. Work commenced on a protective coffer dam until 1940, with total costs of construction coming to ?0, 000 ( equivalent to ?.5 million today ).
6. On one occasion, he had a coffer dam built in a river downstream from a bridge from which a bagful of human bones had been dropped.
7. Tearing down the 81 . 5-meter-tall ( 250-foot-tall ) coffer dam will take an army of bulldozers and cranes five months to finish, the report said.
8. The dam was filled with oakum and canvas which had been shown to help reduce the size of the hole made by a projectile passing through the coffer dam.
9. One of the most challenging tasks in the construction involved massive excavations, the deepest being for a huge coffer dam which kept the river waters out of the site.
10. Only in Denmark, where a cluster of Viking ships was uncovered, has a coffer dam been used to isolate a site and allow the water to be pumped out, according to Arnold.