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  • The paintings are hung by subject -- "Quarrying," "Smithies," "Intellectual Trades," "Beer and Wine," and so on; wall labels offer only the name of the artist, the title, and dates.

    Love of Labor, Labor of Love: 2008

  • He has been busy making up "No to Quarrying" posters that almost all the homes have in their windows.

    Dungeness's strange beauty under threat from shingle plan 2012

  • Quarrying the latter rich lode will yield insight into the conformity of outlook that rules the thinking of officials, pundits, politicians and think-tankers.

    Michael Brenner: Ode to a Dying God 2010

  • Quarrying and excavations in the Cava, Cassina and Kalkscheiferzone beds have exposed a wealth of smaller fossils.

    Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland 2008

  • Quarrying limestone for use in manufacture of concrete and antacids is not new to the area, nor is its damaging effect on the rock art.

    Taino Cave Art Under Siege 2001

  • Mr Bakker said this yesterday at the Midyear Conference of the Institute of Quarrying held at Olifantsfontein in the Gauteng

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • COLLINS, J.H.: A first book of Mining and Quarrying.

    Chapter 30 1993

  • Quarrying wedges, plugs and feathers, explosives, or calmmite can be used.

    2. QUARRYING 1992

  • Special Public Works Programmes - SPWP - Stone Paving-Blocks - Quarrying, Cutting and Dressing (ILO - UNDP, 1992, 60 p.) (introduction ...)

    Chapter 1 1992

  • Special Public Works Programmes - SPWP - Stone Paving-Blocks - Quarrying, Cutting and Dressing (ILO - UNDP, 1992, 60 p.) (introduction ...)

    Chapter 8 1992

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