Word Finder - motorway

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(parts of Australia) A broad highway designed for high speed traffic, having restrictions on the vehicle types permitted and merging lanes instead of cross traffic; in parts of the United States and other places called freeway.

The object, which was likened in size to a commercial airliner, slowly rotated above the quiet motorway.

Learn To Live - motorway Safety Campaign - Campaigning for compulsory motorway tuition for all newly qualified drivers.

Playing fields, parks, motorway verges are new sources of grassland.

Drove back to the hotel to pick up our luggage, then wended our way out to the motorway in rapidly increasing rain.

The adjustable windshield provides good protection even at high, motorway speeds.

The new, larger windshield offers improved protection off-road and at speed on the motorway.

Few drivers notice the huge bird with a five-foot wingspan floating effortlessly above the busy motorway.

These were 66% of the traffic on motorways in 2001 which gives a 6% reduction of total motorway emissions of CO 2.

Had to do a dry-run beforehand to be sure of finding it in dark with current roadworks on motorway.

Many trunk roads have segregated lanes, or are motorway standard.

The pools today are badly silted up from the waste water from the motorway above.

A slip road will carry traffic from the motorway heading for Rochdale which will bypass the traffic signals.

When will the so-called experts get the motorway system sorted out?

Heavy tailbacks built up on the motorway while the emergency services dealt with the aftermath of the crash.

Its northern terminus is unusual - should n't the motorway continue straight over the top?

I had a great drive home on the motorway through that torrential storm !

Learn To Live - Motorway Safety Campaign - Campaigning for compulsory motorway tuition for all newly qualified drivers.

The noise was so distracting that I missed my motorway turnoff, got lost and had to endure the whining for an extra hour !

That said, there 's little feedback and things can get slightly twitchy on the motorway because of this steering sharpness.

The environmental argument for a motorway speed limit enforcement has a terminally unsound basis in fact.

Middle and lower ponds These two ponds were excavated as part of the water drainage system when the motorway was built.

Meet Howard at the motorway bridge where he is cutting back brambles.

Young, bare trees are planted in the motorway cuttings like serried ranks of upturned witches ' broomsticks.

Cuba Economically isolated and stubbornly clinging to Communism - but yes, it has a motorway network.

Will my weary eyes finally conk out and leave me crashing about the motorway?

The location of Motorway Service Areas (MSA) is therefore potentially crucial in combating driver sleepiness on motorways.

The fact that he also had to wait, occasionally, on the motorway, did not amount to a significant detriment.

They use a very good quality wax which will last for six months if you do not do much motorway driving.

The A876 dual carriageway was upgraded to M876 motorway in 1974, and extended eastwards, on a completely new line, in 1980.

Birds of prey are often to be seen hovering over motorway embankments.

On a 100-mile journey up the motorway, the Rover proved faultless.

At the end of the motorway, take the flyover signed M5 South West.

What we didn't expect was a total gridlock on the motorway about 6 Km short of Murcia.

Industry cannot wait until 2020 for improvements to the motorway network, such as the M6 north of Birmingham which is already gridlocked daily.

The motorway was at a sufficient distance from the house to be largely ignored.

As we sped down the motorway, every thought imaginable ran through my mind.

Now I'm walking on the wasteland of a motorway intersection.

From the motorway junction to Keele the journey time is about 20-25 minutes.

As soon as a commercial vehicle is on the road a three lane motorway becomes little more than a two lane motorway becomes little more than a two lane dual carriage way.

Particularly high numbers of breeding lapwing have been recorded for the area east of the motorway.

Big Brother's Alex Sibley checks out the cleanest loos on the motorway at Moto.

There is still time to stop this motorway madness and invest the money saved in sensible alternatives instead.

The airport is just two miles from the M1 motorway.

The Møller Center is situated less than 1 mile from the M11 motorway.

I remember him singing a protest song about the proposed M62 motorway.

By car From the North leave the M6 motorway at Junction 16 and turn left onto the A500.

The new three-lane motorway runs parallel to the existing A5 for most of its route.

Fifteen percent of the area inside the M25 orbital motorway is currently covered.

When was the 70 mph motorway speed limit introduced in Britain?

You cannot use the outside lane on a three (or four) lane motorway.