Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] miner ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Depression years mothers often called at the better-off houses in the neighbourhood to try and find places for their daughters and one woman recalled employing a succession of unemployed miners ' daughters to whom she paid 5/ a week . |
| 2 | Also known as ‘ coblyns ’ or ‘ coblynau ’ , Cornishmen have long left pieces of traditional miners ' fare — the Cornish pastie — for the knockers to eat . |
| 3 | Over 1,000,000 days ' work were lost due to strikes in the first quarter of 1991 , a figure exceeded in the second quarter under the combined impact of continuing miners ' strikes and protest strikes against price increases . |
| 4 | These protests were added to a series of crippling miners ' strikes which had begun in early March . |
| 5 | It was prompted by nationwide dismay at an announcement that 31 out of 50 pits still operating in the UK were to close and up to 30,000 miners ' jobs would be lost . |
| 6 | First , it was not a strike over wages — although a wage claim was later added to the terms on which the Union was prepared to return to work ; it was about the future of the coalmining industry in Great Britain , and in particular was a protest against a plan for extensive pit closures with consequences for both miners ' jobs and the future of their communities . |