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dual-carriageway

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  • The show makes me bristle with pride to be British: a land where winters are long, skint, dull and damp but never mind because there's always one eccentric within a 20-mile radius of your house prepared to hammer a glowing Wallace & Gromit sledge scene to their roof, causing three-mile dual-carriageway tailbacks, just for the pure silliness of it.

    King Of Christmas Lights: Grace Dent's TV OD 2011

  • Otherwise the dual-carriageway A380 and A38 are only four and eight miles away, making Exeter a 25-min drive, Torquay 15 mins.

    Let's move to Teignmouth, Devon Tom Dyckhoff 2010

  • The plans are generally quite good, mostly on a brownfield site - but the scheme as it stands is dependent upon building a massive new dual-carriageway road around the north side of Norwich, if it is to work.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • The plans are generally quite good, mostly on a brownfield site - but the scheme as it stands is dependent upon building a massive new dual-carriageway road around the north side of Norwich, if it is to work.

    Every town an eco-town 2009

  • The three disciplined championships will feature a 24 hour race on a dual-carriageway loop on Llandudno's Gloddaeth Avenue, and eight and 12 kilometre ascent and descent mountain course at Llanberis and a 54 kilometre Ultra-Trail Race through the Newborough Forest on Anglesey.

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • This bottleneck will be eased later this month, when a 4.5km 2.8-mile dual-carriageway bypass with wider bridges will open.

    The Economist: Daily news and views 2011

  • It would double the length of Colombia's dual-carriageway roads, continue upgrading Bogotá's airport, revive railways and expand shipping by boat.

    The Economist: Daily news and views 2011

  • But Mrs Evans told the court there was a problem with the steering wheel which led to the "split-second" decision to exit the dual-carriageway at high speed.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • I saw that a light sprinkling of snow had fallen, and that at least one vehicle had left the dual-carriageway at speed.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

  • I saw that a light sprinkling of snow had fallen, and that at least one vehicle had left the dual-carriageway at speed.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

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