Definitions
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- noun mining The part of a
coal seam that is currently beingmined .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the part of a coal seam that is being cut
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Examples
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The trouble at the coalface is that old chicken/egg conundrum.
Book Club in a Box 2007
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The trouble at the coalface is that old chicken/egg conundrum.
Book Club in a Box 2007
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The trouble at the coalface is that old chicken/egg conundrum.
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All your rant amounts to is the discovery that some "coalface" staff at RBS don't know the AML requirements very well either, but of course the nice lady who called you back later did.
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2009
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"Developing country companies are innovating close to the 'coalface' of global health problems, making appropriateness, translation, uptake and affordability of the resulting solutions more likely." says Dr. Peter Singer, Director of the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Mr Rudd said it would be a real help to know what it was like at the "coalface".
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Mr Rudd said it would be a real help to know what it was like at the "coalface".
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"Developing country companies are innovating close to the 'coalface' of global health problems, making appropriateness, translation, uptake and affordability of the resulting solutions more likely." says Dr. Peter Singer, Director of the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Last month, its progress was lauded as the government launched a new website offering colleges guidance on how to deal with guns, gangs and knives, and the higher education minister, David Lammy, acknowledged that such institutions were at the "coalface" in the battle against those challenges.
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Professionals at the 'coalface' exercise a level of discretion & autonomy
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