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Six example sentences with surveying, each labelled with its topic.
Before any foundation is poured, surveying establishes the exact corners of the plot and the fall of the land.
Architecture
Nineteenth-century surveying of the frontier produced maps so precise that modern engineers still check property lines against them.
History
Wetland restoration begins with surveying, because a difference of ten centimeters in elevation decides which plants will survive.
Environment
Drone surveying maps a quarry in an afternoon, a job that once took a crew with poles a full week.
Technology
Boundary disputes usually end with surveying, when a licensed crew marks the line both neighbours must accept.
Law
Surveying the glacier each summer showed its snout retreating forty metres a year along the valley floor.
Science
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