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  • noun Plural form of breathalyser.

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Examples

  • Towns and villages are still real places – though many have lost their services as pubs and post offices across the land have fallen to breathalysers and rationalisation.

    24 « October « 2008 « Stephen Rees's blog 2008

  • 'Brain breathalysers' may scan astronauts for stress, New Scientist

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: July 2008 Archives 2008

  • Towns and villages are still real places – though many have lost their services as pubs and post offices across the land have fallen to breathalysers and rationalisation.

    A mini-break on the M1? « Stephen Rees's blog 2008

  • Plastic surgeon Peter Mahaffey told the British Medical Journal police should carry breathalysers and fine those three times over the drink-drive limit.

    Archive 2008-03-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

  • Tile grout will give you an excellent high and is mostly undetectable by police breathalysers.

    YesButNoButYes: Post Prom Words of Wisdom 2007

  • The department said the use of technology such as car verification devices, breathalysers and speed governors to disable public transport vehicles from exceeding the speed limit, would be increased.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • We have introduced a traffic camera office ... we have acquired more breathalysers.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • One wonders about the breathalysers on our national roads on a random basis.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Dubbed "the sniffer" in South Africa, the instrument differs from traditional breathalysers in that it does not require the subject to blow on a mouthpiece.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Doculam marketing director Grant Stewart told Sapa the device, officially known as a "passive alcohol sensor" but dubbed "the sniffer" in South Africa, differed from traditional breathalysers in that it does not require the subject to blow on a mouthpiece.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

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