Sentence examples for timber business from inspiring English sources

He founded the family timber business, which, in the novel, exists to our present day.

In Paris in the 1970's, I worked in a family timber business.

One of his earliest projects had him fighting corruption in the timber business.

Brian, now in the international timber business, swoops in to save the day.

Postwar, he started a timber business, with his brother, in Ockham, Surrey.

Fingerbone was based on the town where she grew up in Idaho, where her father was in the timber business.

The best bet, Mr. Holohan said, is the Plum Creek Timber Company, which is fast becoming the most powerful of publicly traded pure timber businesses.

They should readily recover from localised damage without seriously affecting local woodland and timber businesses and there could even be a benefit to wildlife conservation".

Local governments come in next, paying $2 billion a year to fight pests, with the federal government a distant third at $216 million, while owners of timber businesses lose another $150 million.

John was born in Montreal, to a Scottish father, James Calder, whose family wealth derived from brewing and timber businesses, and a French-Canadian mother, Lucienne (nee Wilson), whose family had made their fortune in banking.

For the past two years the government has imposed a moratorium on felling forests in an effort to halt the deforestation that has laid waste to much of the country's virgin habitat and cleared the way for plantations of palm oil and pulp, paper and timber businesses.