Use "cubic yard" in a sentence

1. At the 89-turbine Top of Iowa facility, the foundation of each 323-foot assembly is a 7-feet-deep 42-feet-diameter octagon filled with 25,713 pounds of reinforced steel and 181 cubic yards of concrete

2. At Buffalo Mountain in Tennessee, too, each foundation is at least 30 feet deep and may contain more than 3,500 cubic yards of concrete (production of which is a major source of CO2)

3. Built during the Great Depression between 1931 and 1936, it used over three million cubic yards of concrete, enough for the paving of a two-lane highway from New York City to the city Tony Bennett left his heart in

4. Another million cubic yards was needed for the power plant and various other stuff

5. Over 175 million cubic yards of earth was removed for the creation of the Panama Canal

6. There were formulae for calculating costs per square foot of wall, per cubic yard of infill, per foot of a roof span, and for more intricate work such as arches and vaulting

7. Over thirty-nine thousand cubic yards of natural stone had arrived on the site, and hundreds of stonemasons were at work, with hammers and chisels, covering the exterior of the stadium with blocks of fine, ivory-colored Franconian limestone

8. A massive dragline the size of her apartment building swung back and forth, its bucket clawing into the earth and digging out two hundred cubic yards of overburden and dumping it into neat piles