Sentences with phrase «coal pits»

It was developed for the job controlling of the rat population in coal pits and cotton mills.
His comments, which come as ministers prepare to unveil a # 200billion rescue package for the banks, are reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher's refusal to save «uneconomic» coal pits during the Eighties.
Francis Tully found his fossilized monster in discarded rocks at an Illinois coal pit in 1958.
His stories for The Times have taken him to Greece, where he wrote about the country's growing ranks of nurses who aren't really nurses; Ukraine, where he covered the economic devastation caused by war; and Poland, where he followed so - called rathole miners into illegal coal pits.
Although unearthed by the thousands in the coal pits at one site in northeastern Illinois, where rocks were laid down between 307 million and 309 million years ago, its fossils have been found nowhere else in the world — one reason the Tully Monster was named Illinois's state fossil in 1989.
The Yorkshire Terrier was developed in the north of England about the mid-19th century, chiefly for the job of controlling the rat population in the coal pits and cotton mills.
Railroad lines, new roads and iron trestles, blast furnaces, smokestacks, rail stations and coal pits are all represented in his paintings.
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