Independent Practice* 1) Nothing in Dutch memory compares with the flood of February 1953.
2) Some 50,000 houses were swept out to sea; 70,000 people were evacuated from their homes.
3) As a result of the deluge, engineers are building a massive coastal barrier.
4) Work on the barrier was not begun until 1978 but was completed by 1990
5) By 1990, this masterpiece of engineering will have cost Dutch taxpayers nearly three billion dollars.

*Be careful. This exercise has both adjective and adverb phrases