(n.) The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.
(n.) The coal trade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hopper was a miner for 27 years at Wearmouth colliery, which was on the site where the Stadium of Light stands.
(2) There were significant within region variations between collieries, and standardised mortality ratios increased during the later years of the follow up, approaching or slightly exceeding 100 in most of the 20 coalmines studied.
(3) In a recent speech to miners and representatives of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign at Hatfield Main colliery in his Doncaster constituency, soon to be Britain's only working deep coalmine, Miliband was notably supportive of the miners' strike, describing it as "a just cause".
(4) A group of “knife-wielding suspects” attacked a colliery in Asku prefecture, about 650km south-west of Urumqi, according to Radio Free Asia (RFA), a US-funded news group.
(5) The main activity of the Houillères du Bassin de Lorraine (Lorraine Collieries), employing 23,000 operatives and executives, is coalmining.
(6) A group of ex-miners appear to have been wooed by Osborne when he visited them ahead of a trip to the Thoresby colliery in Nottinghamshire earlier this month to announce the government would underwrite a fuel-benefit scheme.
(7) A former government-funded development agency spent millions creating a business park on the site of the colliery that closed in 1993.
(8) In general, the overall results of this study were in good agreement with those of previous work on coal dust toxicity in that both the rank and composition of colliery dusts were found to be of importance, whereas the role of quartz remained enigmatic.
(9) Songs helped shape popular moods: Richard Thompson’s Blackleg Miner highlighted the plight of colliery workers, while Song of the Lower Classes by the chartist poet MP Ernest Jones drew on rousing works such as Shelley’s Mask of Anarchy .
(10) As part of a large cross sectional epidemiological study of respiratory disease in coalminers, the respiratory health of miners in one colliery in south Wales has been compared with the health of nearby telecommunication (telecom) workers.
(11) Our examined population consisted of 2058 coal miners working underground in Bogdanka colliery (Lublin Basin).
(12) Radio Free Asia said the number of people killed in the 18 September attack at the Sogan colliery in Aksu had reached 50, with most casualties members of the Han Chinese majority.
(13) The excess of respiratory disease shown among these miners is not necessarily a consequence of the dust concentrations currently experienced underground, nor is the colliery necessarily representative of the coal industry generally.
(14) Investigation of water samples from various sites at the colliery did not discover a source of the infection.
(15) Comparison and analysis of the relationship between the prevalence and factors associated with CWP in five collieries, showed that the prevalence rate only reflected the rate of CWP in population and not the category construction of CWP; so, in certain circumstances, it is not suitable to estimate the risk of CWP in different collieries.
(16) In addition, there were large colliery specific variations in incidence related to variations in the carbon content of the coal though not fully explained by them.
(17) In these 250 mines a progressive and five-fold increase in prevalence was observed from collieries mining low-rank (bituminous) coal to those mining coal of high ranks (anthracite and high-grade steam and coking coal).
(18) The difference did not vary significantly between three groups of collieries, defined by coal rank.
(19) Current work includes continuation of mortality studies and follow-up surveys of miners no longer working at the research collieries.
(20) This study revealed time-dependent and airborne mass concentration-dependent recruitment of neutrophils and macrophages into the bronchoalveolar region with coal mine dust inhalation but no real difference in the magnitude of the response between coal mine dusts from collieries mining coal of different rank and quartz content although the maximum quartz content in the dusts used was 6%.
Vend
Definition:
(v. t.) To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables.
(n.) The act of vending or selling; a sale.
(n.) The total sales of coal from a colliery.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
(2) Last year, at the suggestion of Selfridges, Hook installed and supplied a raw milk vending machine at the flagship store on Oxford Street – a novel way to sell direct to customers, as the law requires.
(3) The song also features Tatum's Magic Mike co-star Olivia Munn and Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe – plus a cameo role for Miley Cyrus who gets trapped under a vending machine.
(4) A survey conducted in 1983 revealed that the majority of the student body knew about the vending machine.
(5) The facility stresses self-care, and a bulletin board located near the vending machine provides numerous health education brochures.
(6) Instead of fostering dependency on the nursing staff the vending machine helps the students become self-reliant in reference to assessing their own health needs.
(7) Will the new coin fit parking and vending machines?
(8) As for the sanitation control of vending machines examined, 66 to 74% percent were unsatisfactory.
(9) Under the national rules, which are applied to other state schools, vending machines can only sell healthy snacks such as fruit, nuts and bottles of water.
(10) At posttest 2 in May 1990, 24% sold tobacco over the counter and 93% sold tobacco through vending machines.
(11) However, these differences were not found in vending machine sales.
(12) Like most of the Caribbean, the majority of our population lives on our beautiful coastlines, where they depend on tourism, agriculture, beach-front vending and fishing for their livelihoods.
(13) More polymer notes can be stacked in ATMs than paper notes, and they don't jam vending machines in the same way.
(14) Among a cohort of stores visited by minors at the pretest (n = 104) in June 1988, 71% sold tobacco over the counter and 92% sold tobacco through vending machines.
(15) s-1) were found to be linearly correlated: vMIG = 1.12 + 0.64 vEND (r2 = 0.72; n = 36).
(16) Sent via Guardian Witness By Karthika Gopalakrishnan 22 May 2014, 5:55 Finally spare a thought for the Guardian staff, greeted with this from our vending machines every morning.
(17) They get stuck in the vacuum, my wife slipped on one and fell hard on the tile floor, and I keep unsuccessfully trying to use them in vending machines before realizing they aren't real money.
(18) The Tories would ban the practice of peer-to-peer marketing techniques targeted at children, and also work with headteachers to terminate contracts between schools and vending machine firms.
(19) The move to polymer notes will land shops and banks with a bill of up to £236m , it has been estimated, because ATMs, vending machines and self-service machines will need to be recalibrated to take the new plastic notes, which are 15% smaller than the current notes.
(20) (Hook complied, but still thinks vending machines could be “a great way forward” for small farmers.)