"thin" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The tunnel was dug mostly through compacted sand with some thin strata of hard rock in between, making light blasting necessary.
- Our bow side entry screens were flaming white hot from atmospheric friction in spite of our passage through the thinnest upper strata.
- Thus it developed that my flagship soon raced through the thin upper strata looking like a red-glowing sunball.
- Hence the statistical properties of the population may not be preserved if there are thin strata.
- These thin strata, close to the surface, were extracted through open cut workings, which were then smelted by the monks in small bloomeries (early furnaces).
- But what this meant in reality was recruiting a thin stratum of educated and loyal workers and removing them from the factory floor.
- Local trade grew perceptibly and a thin stratum of relatively well-off artisans and merchants began to emerge.
- As a result only a thin stratum of wealthy native merchants developed.
- The glacial till is generally decalcified to 3-4 metres; thinner strata may be entirely decalcified.
- Most of the surface consists of thin strata of hardened clay with pockets of water between them.
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