1.   And in the hearth of one small pit house, the archaeologists also found a single coprolite, the scientific term for fossil feces.

2.   A bloke watches them gather round a small pit and loudly wager on the toss of two coins.

3.   It consists of two small pits in the partition between the nostrils.

4.   It must be torture to be trapped in a small pit.

5.   Softwood trees produce very long, thin cells that pass liquids from one to another through small pits in their ends, which touch each other.

6.   Two of the dead were women who were buried in a small pit, that was certain.

7.   Some dug half-heartedly in a small pit, while others checked the dirt extracted earlier for gold missed the first time around.

8.   State mines contravened regulations in contracting small pits to individual entrepreneurs, the official Beijing Daily said.

9.   The Legal Daily said the government has ordered all state-run mines to stop production at small pits immediately and close them down by the end of June.