gravel quarry

collocation in English

meaningsofgravelandquarry

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gravel
noun[U]
uk
/ˈɡræv.əl/us
/ˈɡræv.əl/
small, rounded stones, often mixed ...
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quarry
noun
uk
/ˈkwɒr.i/us
/ˈkwɔːr.i/
a large artificial hole in the ground where stone, sand, etc. is dug for use as ...
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There is significant gravel quarrying in the region. 94 people walk/cycle to work or work at home and 34 people use public transport to travel to work.
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A firm of waste disposal contractors leases thegravelquarryfrom the company.
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The hill shown to the left is now agravelquarry.
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Today it is a disused, and largely infilled, sand andgravelquarry.
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At about the same time, a hoard was unearthed close by in agravelquarry.
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There is also a spinney, which was agravelquarryin the 19th century.
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It was created in an abandonedgravelquarryusing the natural flooding of springwater after the city caked the bottom with clay.
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The reserve comprises six lakes, restored from a former sand andgravelquarry.
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Before the 1960s there was some industry in the municipality, including agravelquarryand a printing factory.
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The only residing land owners operate a concrete recycling depot andgravelquarrywhich contains a regionally significant quantity of conglomerate used for road base.
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The area was developed from a former opencast mine and a sand andgravelquarryand was opened to the public in 1985.
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Two large lakes were formed to the north of the village during gravel quarrying in the 1960s.
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The line closed to passenger traffic in 1963 but remained open to serve local gravel quarries until 1982.
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Not all sand and gravel quarries are former deltas, but for ones that are, a lot of the sorting is already done by the power of water.
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Just over a kilometre south of the station another rail siding was provided in 1926 for a privately owned gravel quarrying operation which functioned intermittently until 1941.
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