How To Use Quarrying In A Sentence

  • Extensive quarrying in Byzantine times has removed all evidence of earlier levels here, but topographically a main entrance into the temenos on Temple Hill in antiquity on this side makes the most sense.
  • Many stonecutters did smithing work in the winter when quarrying was not done.
  • The area also yielded further evidence for quarrying: trenches cut in the limestone to separate the blocks to be extracted laterally, and half-finished prefabricates (Halbfabrikaten) of sarcophagus lids and coffins. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Suburban Survey Report 2
  • In addition to its maritime trade and ship-building, the population is chiefly engaged in manufactures of steel, glass, delph, majolica, and in the quarrying of lignite and marble. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
  • Among Kangaroo Island's earliest industries, apart from the whaling and sealing, were shipbuilding, salt harvesting, quarrying and the production of eucalyptus oil.
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  • The funding was a result of a Government tax levied on every tonne of stone aggregate extracted from quarrying.
  • This structure has been partly destroyed by quarrying and the remains are only a few feet high. A Guide to Megalithic Ireland
  • Although badly mutilated by quarrying, some of the defences can still be traced, especially on the north and north-west sides.
  • Includes Quarrying, Tyre, Brake and Road Surface Wear.
  • Her home, a bungalow which serves as a gatehouse to the village of Lingerbay, would end up on the lip of the two kilometre-long sea loch which would be left behind if quarrying on the scale proposed goes ahead.
  • Extensive quarrying in Byzantine times has removed all evidence of earlier levels here, but topographically a main entrance into the temenos on Temple Hill in antiquity on this side makes the most sense.
  • Heritage Action say science still cannot answer many of the questions about the earthworks, and they want a moratorium on quarrying near historic sites, until methods improve.
  • One only has to look at the mess caused by open quarrying elsewhere to see how this stretch of land will be destroyed. Times, Sunday Times
  • The 1990s in Britain were marked by large and dramatic public protests against a government-sponsored programme of road building, and a private sector-led expansion of opencast quarrying.
  • They are quarrying the hillside for marble.
  • On May Hill, earthworks tell of a long history including quarrying, charcoal burning and grazing.
  • BRL has completed a successful trial quarrying and bauxite extraction costean programme of some 300 tonnes of bauxite for bulk sample for overseas customers. WA Business News - Latest News
  • The debate over the extension of quarrying close to the three Thornborough Henges - one of Britain's most important Neolithic sites - continues at a public meeting on Wednesday.
  • After a tied vote the spotlight turned to Mr Heseltine in the chair, who cast his vote in favour of allowing deeper quarrying.
  • Villagers in the Mexican state of Veracruz discovered the tablet sometime before 1999, while quarrying an ancient Olmec mound for road-building material.
  • The idea of mining Paritutu's bones was shelved, and quarrying continued at Fishing Rock.
  • The potable nature of available drinking water is affected as the sweet water aquifers are destroyed by quarrying.
  • The long-running saga of whether quarrying is to be permitted at an historic Peak District beauty spot is set for a final showdown.
  • Not many appear to care for world prehistory wherever granite is available for quarrying.
  • The iron ore is easily extracted by quarrying with giant excavators.
  • A second scenario is that quarrying operations exposed easily weathered fossiliferous shales, mudstones, or fine-grained sandstones interbedded with limestones.
  • The excavators estimated a total burial population of as many as 200 before quarrying destroyed portions of the site.
  • The heavy building materials and quarrying industry has been under investigation on and off by the authorities for years. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the early days of quarrying, one-foot holes were made and whole kegs of gunpowder used in blasting.
  • The powdered basalt, granite and other volcanic rock is a by-product of quarrying and hundreds of thousands of tonnes of the material is lying unused around Scotland.
  • In 1952 a post-war government anxious to exploit its mineral wealth granted sweeping planning permission to quarrying firms in places like the Peak District.
  • When the season for quarrying began, the pits sprang to life and the pace continued rapidly until the first deep frost at which time quarrying ceased.
  • In 1992, the height of the obsidian ‘rush’, seven companies were quarrying the stone in the area.
  • Polar literature is a rich vein for quarrying. Times, Sunday Times
  • The scar created by quarrying the hillside is visible from a wide area, but working of the scar face is now completed and progress is being made below the level of surrounding land.
  • The local authority has used an aircraft to provide thermal images of the area in order to pinpoint all the illegal landfills on the site which is used for legitimate quarrying by CRH.
  • The 12 men were arrested on Wednesday in a sting operation as police and army officials sought to crack down on illegal quarrying.
  • Assistance with funding was also provided by English Nature and a local quarrying company.
  • However, quarrying is a long-standing industry, one which was there centuries before tourism.
  • You can visit the restored quarryman's cottage and view relics of the early quarrying.
  • As a contributor to the building trades, brownstone quarrying reflected the country's cyclical economic condition.
  • ‘They raised the concern that the quantity and quality of groundwater may be affected by quarrying activities,’ he said.
  • The main occupation in the community is stone - quarrying.
  • As quarrying expanded, it slowly encroached upon the Old Burial Ground, established by the Legislature in 1712.
  • In the early days of quarrying, one-foot holes were made and whole kegs of gunpowder used in blasting.
  • The singing, so difficult to bear for many listeners, never settles into a particular pitch, remaining agonisedly in motion; Jandek presents us with a voice in extremity, and an endless quarrying of pain and related states, in which infinite gradations of suffering are allowed to differentiate themselves. Archive 2007-10-01
  • At Endcliffe and Lees Cross near Stanton Moor and its Bronze Age monument The Nine Ladies, eco-warriors have dug a series of tunnels in a four-year campaign to prevent quarrying.
  • It was an exercise in landscape history before gravel quarrying and roadworks east of Kettering and Wellingborough destroyed the evidence.
  • Extensive quarrying in Byzantine times has removed all evidence of earlier levels here, but topographically a main entrance into the temenos on Temple Hill in antiquity on this side makes the most sense.
  • They were worldly and farsighted when it came to brownstone quarrying, but that view was constricted by blinders to the impending changes in building technology and the image of brownstone.
  • Asked if the commission was going to reafforest Windsor Park, given the denudation caused by the quarrying on lands listed as a watershed area, he replied: ‘Let me not answer that.’
  • As quarrying expanded, five pits were eventually opened.
  • Boarding houses and bars were constructed for their accommodation and refreshment, for quarrying is thirsty work.
  • When quarrying was abandoned the Flashes were left to nature.
  • Mining and quarrying also suffered record falls in production. Times, Sunday Times
  • A central aim of the book is to explore what is Venetian about the Venetian domestic environment and its furnishings, and this calls for the extensive quarrying and analysis of textual materials.
  • The scar created by quarrying the hillside below the Nab is visible from a wide area, but excavations are now going downwards below the level of the surrounding land.
  • Snowdonia, where the evidence of centuries of quarrying and mineral extraction is heaped everywhere.
  • Although it is good to see the end of environmentally destructive quarrying, the landscaping seems a little excessive.

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