noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
manager
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He had been promised that once he had obtained his colliery manager's certificate, he would be made an assistant manager .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A young lodge leader in Barnsley took a party of us down his colliery .
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Further investment is needed at the colliery , which reopened last year when 160 miners invested £10,000 each to form the consortium.
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Her home overlooks the pithead and the haunting winding gear of a colliery where an explosion once killed over thirty miners.
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I worked in the coal mines for three years to obtain my colliery manager's certificate.
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The two-year subsidy is intended to stave off colliery closures until after the general election.
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This is another area which is changing out of all recognition since closure of the colliery and removal of sidings etc.
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We have also lost jobs in the cement industry and there are question marks over the Point of Ayr colliery .