Costain
Americannoun
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The difficult terrain, plus a dispute with contractor Costain, meant the project has gone more than £100m over budget.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2021
Elisabeta is a slinger signaller, at the Skanska Costain Strabag joint venture, redeveloping Euston Station in London for HS2.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2021
Matt Costain, who played the lead role of Sky Boy in the Dome’s central show, told me that the performers’ training programme created an entire industry of circus and acrobatics in the UK.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2020
Martin has also listed Maurice Druon and Thomas B. Costain as models, two mid-20th-century historical novelists who wrote about medieval France, and you can see echoes of that material in his fictional universe, as well.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2012
Tired of "all the Arthurian tripe about the Holy Grail," Novelist Costain has written his own version of what happened to the cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper.
From Time Magazine Archive
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