Each car holds about 20 cubic yards of dirt, and 21 cars make a train.
They are protected on the seaward side by thousands ofcubic yards of water-worn stones, piled up like a revetment or riprap, which terminate abruptly at the southern end but extend to the mouth of the creek at the north.
The average thickness was close to 4½ feet, so the amount was not far from 800 cubic yards.
Altogether, more than 300 cubic yards of material were removed.
Of the cost of excavating a given number of cubic yards of earth from drains, it is difficult to give reliable estimates.
Table showing the number of Cubic Yards of Earth in each Rod (5-1/2 Yards in length), in Drains or Ditches of various Dimensions.
There were nearly 5000 cubic yards of puddle to work up, and as the clay came from the trenches so we worked it up.
The engineer knew his book, and would not have it worked from one or two big heaps, and the sand brought to it, but he would have separate mounds of about 20 cubic yards at a time.
The excavated earth of such a drain measures not quite 3 cubic yards, (exactly, 2.
The waters at Bath, for instance, are estimated to bring to the surface an annual amount of various salts, the mass of which is not less than 554 cubic yards.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cubic yards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
