(1) It is an enormous earthwork henge, roughly 180m across, with a stone passage tomb at its centre.
(2) At 4.43am on 21 June, when the sun rises above the rolling plains of Wiltshire and, cloud willing, its rays come fingering their way through the grass to touch the mighty sarsens and bluestones of the Henge, it will be a moment of joy for all concerned: the battles of the past between druids, crusties, conservators, archaeologists, seers and sightseers are over – thousands of them will be there, ready to celebrate the dawn of a new age for the Neolithic.
(3) There were similar comments on Tan's Facebook page, with Bao Heng commenting : "These [Chinese] drivers don't deserve the same salary and benefits.
(4) The first grooved pottery, which is so distinctive of the era, was made here, for example, and the first henges – stone rings with ditches round them – were erected on Orkney.
(5) To detect the risk factors of low birth weight in the newborns, a case-control study was conducted in 5 Health Stations of Donge-heng District of Beijing from Sept 1985 to June 1986.
(6) They were joined by Drew Sherman of the Cook Islands and Brunei’s Mike Wong Mun Heng.
(7) Colombia confirms first three deaths of patients infected with Zika virus Read more The new work provides experimental evidence that once the virus reaches the developing brain, it can infect and harm cells that are key for further brain development, said Hengli Tang of Florida State University, a lead author of the work, which was released Friday by the journal Cell Stem Cell.
(8) I appreciate that the monument needs to be protected, and that a nominal sum could fairly be charged for the cost of a fence and a few guards, but £72 for a timed visit is clearly preposterous for those who are happy to walk from the perimeter, and simply want to wander round the stones, without buying a Henge in a Snowstorm (they don't really sell that, do they?)
(9) Of course, the Henge itself has been substantially remodelled over the centuries, never more so than during the last, when several stones were re-erected and lintels were replaced to form trilithons that hadn't been intact for a long time.
(10) In recent decades the pushing back of the dates for the various phases of Stonehenge's construction, together with extensive new evidence from digs at the nearby massive earthen henge at Durrington Walls, have contributed to a different sort of a narrative; and there's general archaeological consensus that this entire part of Wiltshire, from the huge earthworks at Avebury and Silbury Hill, stretching down the Avon to Woodhenge and Durrington Walls, and taking in the strange features known as the cursus and the Stonehenge Avenue (parallel earthwork ridges running for several kilometres) as well as scores of barrows (or burial mounds) constituted an integrated "sacred landscape".
Hung
Definition:
() of Hang
() imp. & p. p. of Hang.
Example Sentences:
(1) And adding to this toxic mix, was the fear that the hung parliament would lead to a weak government.
(2) Shell casings littered the main road, tear gas hung in the air and security forces beat local residents.
(3) This was incredible - Selby somehow hung in there yesterday, taking frames when apparently outclassed, and then when he needed to turn it up today, he did - 13-4 turned it up.
(4) Keep asking questions like that and you’re going to get hung up on, like right now,” he said, then disconnected the line.
(5) But O'Donnell stressed that hung parliaments were rare.
(6) After that attack, he said, body parts of some of the dead and wounded had been hung in trees as a "kind of trophy for the world to see".
(7) Without him, we were at the mercy of increasingly nervous investors, and our Hollywood film-making future hung in the balance.
(8) Similar differential inhibition by dipyridamole of the salvage of thymidine, as opposed to 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine, was reported previously (G. V. Betageri, J. Szebeni, K. Hung, S. S. Patel, L. M. Wahl, M. Corcoran, and J. N. Weinstein, Biochem.
(9) Read more Both Xenophon and Katter had left open the prospect of entering formal minority agreements with the Coalition – unlike Cathy McGowan and Andrew Wilkie , who said they would approach a hung parliament vote by vote.
(10) In 2013, the Mail On Sunday reported that Umunna belonged to a “shady” City men’s club where bottles of brandy went for £4,000 a pop, that he hung out with celebrities, and that he would happily pay £1,200 for a suit.
(11) Lewis has not hung around in sorting out the unwanted porfolio.
(12) The Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, hailed the results, including the 12,000-vote win in Clacton over the Conservatives, and predicted the party might hold the balance of power in a hung parliament.
(13) Don’t get too hung up on identity issues “The idea of gender fluidity is an alien concept to the vast majority of people, even in Britain.” 4.
(14) With 73,000 people killed and large parts of its cities and villages destroyed in the north by the disaster, the plight of 2.5 million people left homeless hung in the balance.
(15) These results extend the previously proposed model (Hung, C.-H., Noelken, M. E., and Hudson, B. G. (1981) J. Biol.
(16) Are people overly hung up on the ability of people to change?
(17) The market's assessment of the impact of a hung parliament has been mixed.
(18) Quique Sánchez Flores, the fighter who prefers pragmatism to artistry at Watford Read more Flores is not a man to be discouraged easily and, having hung up his boots in 1997, the right-back – who was part of the Spain squad at the 1990 World Cup – finally lived the dream.
(19) Another journalist asks whether Clegg would support the party with the most voters or the most seats in a hung parliament.
(20) Somebody had hung a guardsman's bright red ceremonial tunic on a road sign outside a pub.