A-road

The A-road was partially cleared, but I still took it at 30-35mph and often slower.

Chocolate Fireguards (Cars and Email) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

If you exceed the 50mph speed limit on an empty A-road at 4am and are caught on a speed camera, you will get a fine and three points and have your insurance increased as a result.

Archive 2008-07-01 Not a sheep 2008

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 2010

He is always "roading", as he calls it, down the criss-crossing tracks that quaintly preserve their A-road designations.

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban John Mullan 2010

We got on the bus, but there had been a major accident on the local A-road, so the streets were gridlocked.

Archive 2009-04-01 The List Writer 2009

We got on the bus, but there had been a major accident on the local A-road, so the streets were gridlocked.

Small stresses - small pleasures The List Writer 2009

No go -- so shower, change clothes, drink water, wait for Ali to arrive before driving off the scenic A-road route to Reading and James' celebrated cooking skills.

On a Sunny Sunday Afternoon... in the Summertime jinty 2004

They had left the outer suburbs behind at last and were now in the open countryside, driving down a winding A-road past gently rolling fields of cattle and sheep.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2002

They had left the outer suburbs behind at last and were now in the open countryside, driving down a winding A-road past gently rolling fields of cattle and sheep.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2002

After an hour or two, you leave at the correct junction and join an A-road, which you follow for a while, before turning off on to smaller, quieter roads that elide into narrow lanes.

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