How To Use Motorway In A Sentence
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A report by banking group Halifax revealed that the top 30 towns for price growth were all outside the M25 London orbital motorway, and Brighouse headed the list.
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It would leave the motorway untouched.
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A police motorcyclist, right, escorted him off the motorway to safety.
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It mixed with the humid air that was around and drifted towards the motorway becoming a thick smog.
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It was also claimed that the rise reflected an increase in the number of digital cameras used to monitor variable speed limits on stretches of'smart' motorways.
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I got/was cut up several times on the motorway this morning - I've never seen such dangerous driving!
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This is yet another example of the same twentypercentism which has us building single lane bypasses around market towns when floodlit motorways, visible from the moon, are needed.
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Two more telephone calls, both from motorway service station call boxes, cut short Marianne's rumination.
OUT OF THE ASHES
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‘Now all we have to do is find out way back out to the motorway again,’ Graham said, just a little glumly.
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The ride feels more grand tourer than eager hot hatch on the motorway, but once you make for an exit the Golf soon switches into fun mode.
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In England the road traffic code system is much the same as here, if you stay away from the motorways and travel the country roads.
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The road tolls are to pay for motorways and town bypasses.
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Motorists gave way as the convoy hurtled past and three motorway toll booths raised their barriers to let the cars speed through.
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On the motorway you can cruise along in comfort mode, switching to sport on the A-roads, flicking to advanced sport to hug corners and bends.
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It's a very good cruiser, too, moving along effortlessly at motorway limit speeds and above. 40.
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The robbers seize the cash, jump into fast getaway cars and drive off - through holes cut earlier into the side barriers of the motorway.
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The exit ramp from the motorway took me down to a set of lights, sadly however it took everyone else down too and a queue of vehicles was waiting to get through the lights.
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I suspect they might change their minds if they had to make a sudden swerve on the motorway at 70mph.
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It is virtually impossible to have a head-on collision on a motorway where all the traffic is going in the same direction.
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Planning your route using a map leads to being stranded at motorway on-ramps.
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What concerns me is the habit most motorcyclists have of weaving between vehicles to overtake on congested motorways.
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The battle along the M4 motorway corridor between Reading and Swindon was particularly fierce.
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But nobody who regularly uses the motorway can say they haven't been warned about the dangers of driver fatigue.
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Will we not have to make a decision in advance of what the extent of the motorway's influence has been?
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They aim to snarl traffic in the area by blocking the main coastal motorway.
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They cannot risk the frequent delivery delays that occur when the motorway is blocked by road works or accidents.
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On Monday morning, they started out for the motorway at the unusually early hour of ten o'clock.
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Its location in the Midlands near the motorway network makes it an ideal meeting place for people coming from different parts of the country.
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We could tell from the smell and the noises that our bus was making that it wasn't going to get very far, and it wasn't long before we were all standing on the hard shoulder of the motorway next to a broken-down bus.
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Thieves have raided a motorway petrol garage three times in a fortnight one of them wearing a jacket he had stolen on an earlier visit.
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Eleven cars were involved in a pileup on the motorway.
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The road tolls are to pay for motorways and town bypasses.
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Despite its size, it is agile enough to hustle along country lanes, cruises comfortably at motorway speeds and is easy to manoeuvre around town.
The Sun
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A motorist died when his car struck a wild boar on an unlit motorway, veered across the road and was hit by a lorry.
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The system would be enforced by speed cameras mounted along the managed sections of motorway.
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He admitted dangerous driving after sending text messages while driving over 60 mph on a motorway.
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Some are remote from modern civilisation, others survive cheek by jowl with spreading towns and motorways.
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We then chewed his ear about the dangers and once off the motorway let him loose.
The Sun
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Through the shadows of this forest land we have driven our motorways, and great automobiles rumble where protesting monkeys chatter and scream.
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I got/was cut up several times on the motorway this morning - I've never seen such dangerous driving!
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I got/was cut up several times on the motorway this morning - I've never seen such dangerous driving!
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They did not drive the buggy on the motorway.
The Sun
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He said rubbish on motorways is unsightly and poses a danger to both drivers and animals.
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If we had disagreed, we could have been left in the rain on an unlighted shoulder of a motorway.
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Contrary to popular belief motorways are the safest roads to drive on and the speed limit should be increased.
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He approached the motorway exit to the airport but pretended he hadn't seen it.
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This means there's investment in railways and bus terminals as well as increased spending on display signs for motorways and parking.
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He alerted colleagues in a bid to warn drivers heading north on the motorway.
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If you were able to see the Great Wall from space, you'd be able to see the bloody motorway system.
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New traffic figures show Scotland's main motorway artery is rapidly clogging up ahead of expert forecasts.
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A driver died when his tanker plunged 60 ft from a motorway bridge and exploded into a massive fireball.
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There's a scheme afoot to put a motorway through the park.
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No way but suicide king and down the alley roared the car clitter clattering up the motorways and through towards evermore.
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Once you get it moving on a motorway, though, it buzzes along with aplomb.
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The software is also speed-sensitive, so it can distinguish the different conditions in city driving and faster roads or motorways.
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The driver had been trying to exit the A4 motorway near Verona when the vehicle veered off the road and slammed into a bridge support.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since the beginning of January, the speed limit on certain Italian motorways has been raised to 150 km/h or just over 90 mph.
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Plus you can get adaptive cruise control for long motorway journeys.
The Sun
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A residents' action group is re-forming to tackle the M60 project - 10 years after seeing-off another motorway plan.
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Heavy traffic jams were reported on nearly all the main motorways as ten million headed to the countryside and beaches.
The Sun
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If you do end up hiring a car, staying in motorway hotels is often cheaper than historic (and hysterically expensive) city locations
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Roadworks on England's motorways and trunk roads will be restricted to a minimum over the holiday weekend, the Highways Agency said.
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The Qashqai is easy to get into and easy to drive in town, on a motorway or twisty country roads.
The Sun
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The AA advises customers to shop around for fuel and to avoid filling up at motorway service stations.
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One member of the planning committee had a conflict of interests as he lived near the proposed motorway.
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Here the physical presence of the motorway is unavoidable as its superstructure looms over the building, but sail-like uplighters bounce and diffuse light up through the tall volume.
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Motorists were caught up in long traffic tailbacks after an accident caused chaos on the motorway and led to traffic congestion on main routes through Kendal.
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In an ideal and organised world, the motorist would be sensible enough to refuel his car before joining a motorway.
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We drove down the motorway as far as Bristol.
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This was not so much a car crash as a slow-motion motorway pile-up.
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All major access routes and motorways to the town were re-routed or closed for the President's visit.
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Unusually for a sportscar of this type, it comes with six gears, making the occasional motorway cruise all the more bearable.
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Be particularly careful when you are driving because grassy banks on country roads and motorways are a rich source of pollen.
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Unless you've a hang-glider, this means two accident-prone motorways.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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They are a significant cause of litter -- just look at any motorway verge or railway cutting.
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He was driving along the motorway when his tyre burst.
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Put it on a motorway and you could happily sit behind the wheel and watch the miles waft past.
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The French crowds pour like lemmings down the motorway to Paris.
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The fact that the new motorway now stretches for 72 kilometres from Dublin to Dundalk has made the town much more commutable, especially for those working at Dublin airport.
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The north-west network stretches along roughly 400 miles of motorway and all-purpose roads.
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We then chewed his ear about the dangers and once off the motorway let him loose.
The Sun
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The M60 ‘missing link’ between Middleton and Denton opened in October 2000 and was the final piece in Manchester's orbital motorway.
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A lorry has shed its load of wood on the motorway.
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He's just got a job collecting tolls at the start of the motorway.
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We took a cross-country route instead of the motorway.
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I hate changing lanes on the motorway.
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One of those new thin fascistic speed cameras was looking beadily down on me and I knew it was only a matter of minutes before I was rumbled and some sort of motorway security would be on the scene.
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The railways, in spite of their enormous subsidies, cannot compete with motorways, whose users pay confiscatory taxes on their fuel.
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Police say they are stumped as to why a man decided to walk into the slow lane of a motorway - and was then knocked down and killed in a collision with a car.
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Our fastest roads (our motorways) are also our safest.
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The weather was wet with motorway spray and traffic was heavy.
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Only after a decade or more does one begin to see the tower cranes which betoken new construction in the sky near the motorway junctions.
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The stronger case, however, is for a general strengthening of the main road network away from the motorways and trunk roads.
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The car performs respectably on the motorway, although it is slightly noisy.
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Some are remote from modern civilisation, others survive cheek by jowl with spreading towns and motorways.
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They had to pull up, possibly go to a motorway services or somewhere like that.
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Wind noise is audible at motorway speeds, but only because the engine and tyres are so quiet.
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I am now looking for something smaller and more economical but quiet and comfortable enough for motorway driving.
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Many of the main motorways and long-distance trunk roads are likely to be busier than usual.
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Motorists gave way as the convoy hurtled past and three motorway toll booths raised their barriers to let the cars speed through.
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Shops and restaurants selling alcohol must be more than 500m from motorways.
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A maniac driver sped 35 miles along the wrong side of a motorway at 110 mph.
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We sent photographers to monitor traffic on two motorways.
The Sun
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The car overturned and rolled down an embankment, ending on its roof at the bottom of a grass bank off the M61 motorway on the outskirts of Bolton.
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The warmth of the reception is evident as you drive up the motorway from Chicago.
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Ministers are unlikely to introduce 80mph on stretches of the motorway network that are only dual carriageway.
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Even in good conditions 70 miles per hour on the motorway is a potentially lethal speed if you are tailgating the car in front.
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Hundreds of vehicles have become snowbound and police are warning people not to travel on this stretch of the motorway.
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But the end of the 11th series was OK, a niceish woman won, Davina not too awful, outside crowd as ever a little bit worrying, but they'll go home soon and we'll happily see them all again in the Sunshine charity coaches we pass on the Christmas motorways.
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It has direct rail links, Tube connections and is close to three motorways.
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Not that it did me much good, as the motorway was the usual slog.
Ruby Tuesday
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Major roads are prefixed with a ‘B’ and the motorways are prefixed with ‘A’ which stands for Autobahn.
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The sofas are being offered for sale in supermarket car parks and on motorway service stations.
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A car and a van collided on the motorway.
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His back tyre just went pop on a motorway.
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Claiming that Sarah Ferguson comes from Basingstoke is pushing it: she grew up on the 876-acre family farm at Dummer, safely south of the M3, gentility's bulwark against the town which sprawls along the motorway's north side.
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The final leg of the journey took us on a spectacular ride through picturesque mountains, with the motorway reaching 5,000 feet above sea level.
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Motorways, electricity generators, municipal dumps were all subject to kickbacks.
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The darkness appeared as a thick, black fog across the motorway, a blue film of light surrounding it.
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Turn off the motorway at the next exit.
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He said research showed that up to 20 per cent of accidents on monotonous roads such as motorways were related to tiredness.
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For most of us, joining the motorway is the moment a journey begins.
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Two days later You steal/twoc another car and are arrested 150 miles away after a chase down the motorway during which you fail to stop and total a police car.
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Every A-road and motorway should have a fourth lane, where thrusting high-achievers can drive at phenomenal speeds, endangering only each other, unsafe in the knowledge they'vegot phenomenally fast reactions, a trait which is common to all business buccaneers.
A lane with no limits
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Come to that, do we need to light roundabouts and motorways now that lights on cars are so much brighter?
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Will getting motorists to drive more slowly on the motorway really help reduce global warming?
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Turn off the motorway at junction 6.
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Far from being the solution to our traffic woes, motorways are a large part of the problem.
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Then you leave the motorway and the road gets twisty and it's like settling into your favourite armchair.
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Murrell, a grey blanket covering his head, was driven away in a green Rover to begin the motorway dash.
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They blame his death on a faulty motorway crash barrier.
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Motorways have largely superseded ordinary roads for long-distance travel.
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Police say that the bones, which were found dumped beneath a motorway, have now been reinterred at the cemetery.
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He went on to advocate toll charges on roads and motorways.
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There remains some accelerative ability, though, and cruising is quiet when our laughable legal motorway limit represents under 2, 000rpm.
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Inattention, often linked to fatigue, is the most common cause of motorway accidents.
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Even when warm and cruising on the motorway it gives off a drone, and tyre noise also intrudes.
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A nine-mile stretch of motorway has been closed.
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He was driving along the motorway when his tyre burst.
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There was no answer, only the silence of the dust clearing and the distant rumble of motorway traffic.
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They said driving lessons and tests should include motorway and night driving and handling dangerous situations.
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A BBC programme claimed to have conclusive evidence of plans for a secret motorway linking the M65, A65 and A1.
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In return, the operator can levy a toll upon traffic using the motorway.
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Warning notices were strung out along the motorway.
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If you have ever made the mistake of eating merguez in a French motorway cafeteria you will know how horrible the commercial kind can be: gristly, fatty, staggeringly salty.
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Two Burnley youths who ambushed two men in a motorway under-pass have been sentenced to two years detention.
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The most complicated motorway interchange in Britain is known as Spaghetti Junction.
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Firms were invited to tender for the construction of the new motorway.
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I choose motorways when driving, for preference.
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When taking an autonomous car allows you to work, motorway traffic is almost bound to increase.
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We overshot the exit for Manchester on the motorway.
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Dummy patrol cars will be set up beside motorways to frighten speeding motorists.
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But this ad hoc roadside culture would not do for the motorways.
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The band were forced to get off and push it along a busy motorway.
The Sun
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Through the shadows of this forest land we have driven our motorways, and great automobiles rumble where protesting monkeys chatter and scream.
Times, Sunday Times
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When you are careering down the motorway at the breakneck speed of forty-five miles per hour, make sure you sit in the middle lane.
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The site is in close proximity to motorways and an airport.
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The canvas-sided milk wagon toppled onto its side, shedding part of its load, completing blocking entry onto the motorway at junction 7, and exit from junction 8.
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When police examined his car, left on the motorway, they found a note written on the back of a bus timetable.
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SPEED limits near roadworks on motorways and other major roads could be increased to ease jams.
The Sun
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I like the idea of binning rural street lighting on motorways and large sections of A roads.
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Out on the motorway it gave ample warning of a police car approaching on the opposite carriageway.
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TWO youngsters dice with death by walking across the top of a motorway bridge.
The Sun
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Gloucester Docks was a thriving port until the 1960's, when it went into decline as traffic moved to the motorways.
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The entire expressway will be put into use in April, with four layers of motorway interchanges at its cross with the outer-ring road, and six lanes of traffic.
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The thick fog has caused several bad pile-ups on the motorway.
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Still, if the only driving you're going to do is on a motorway or smooth, sealed roads, and you need a bit of grunt to get by the odd old fella towing a caravan, it is more than capable.
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‘More and more mysterious,’ Denise said, smiling, and took the exit from the roundabout for the motorway.
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Environmental groups have been squawking about the decision to build the motorway through a forest.
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Repair work is in progress on the south-bound lane of the motorway and will continue until June.
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Cars that have high mileages in a short period are often company cars, so service histories are usually immaculate and it also implies motorway driving, which is less stressful on the engine.
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The present elevated motorway will be moved back some 100m from the seafront and remade at ground level, allowing a linear park to be created along the waterfront.
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The driver had been trying to exit the A4 motorway near Verona when the vehicle veered off the road and slammed into a bridge support.
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The great Easter getaway will see thousands of trippers hitting roads and motorways with many making an early start tonight.
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SICK thugs hurled two dogs on to a busy motorway from a car doing 80mph.
The Sun
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The westbound carriageway of the motorway is closed.
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Police believe the car may have aquaplaned on the waterlogged motorway because of the heavy rain.
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Leave the motorway at the Stokenchurch exit.
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I'm anxious to avoid the motorway at rush hour.
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Mine recently sent me on a bumpy cross-country trip on potholed non-motorway roads.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is raising the motorway speed limit really such a good idea?
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This meant that he preferred back roads to motorways.
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A lot of the books get done that way, on the motorway, usually - I find as I get older that trying to type while we're on the twisty-twiny country roads makes me car-sick.
The right tool
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Motorways actually cover less than 0.1 percent of the countryside.
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Midway between Paris and Frankfurt and the principal east-west autoroute in northern France, it is also on the junction of a major motorway from the Low Countries to southern Europe, and an obvious staging post for Scandinavian and German tourists heading off to their summer holidays in the south.
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Aurillac, a lovely city at the foot of the Cantal mountains, has the dubious distinction of being the prefecture in France furthest from a motorway.
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A temporary injunction has prevented removal of an ancient walled ditch, or fosse, part of the boundary of medieval Carrickmines Castle in south Co Dublin, which lies in the path of the last section of the M50 motorway.
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Charging only on motorways alone would increase traffic on local roads as drivers would divert to avoid the charge.
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A tanker driver died when his lorry veered off the motorway.
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Ministers have talked about the benefits of rail freight as a means of cutting motorway traffic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plenty of varied road work ranging from motorways to the bumpy bog roads as well as a lot of urban use didn't faze this Nissan beaut.
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The motorway was closed as rescuers battled to free casualties from the twisted wreckage of the coach.
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Couldn't all motorways be derestricted at night, say between midnight and 4am?
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Currently you can't drive on a motorway until you have passed your test.
The Sun
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Despite Mum's apprehensions we made the motorway journey from Little Walden (north of Cambridge) down to the London orbital road and out to Portsmouth without a hiccup.
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One of the few driving pleasures left for motorists comes from leaving congested urban streets, abandoning the grim and grinding motorways and hitting the open road.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plans for a new motorway linking the M6 and M56 have been put forward to beat congestion.
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I was somewhat surprised to see the wheel has a 50mph limit, which makes it unsafe at motorway speeds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Suffolk is one of the few English counties without a motorway.
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Her husband Walter's editing a book called something like Motorway Meditation, or Concrete Karma or something.
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