noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dual carriageway
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dual
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Local consultation on the road which would be dual carriageway , with a possible extension is due to end next week.
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Every major road out of the centre had its tramway running up the centre of a dual carriageway .
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They had come off the M3 and were cruising on the dual carriageway A303.
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Another hour had taken him to a five-mile strip of dual carriageway cut through downland.
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According to the DoT's own guidelines such a figure is too much for a dual carriageway .
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An orderly life on either side of the dual carriageway , the illusion of an orderly life.
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Chased by the youths, he ran across a dual carriageway and flagged down a driver who rushed him to hospital.
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While all that agitation was going on a dual carriageway had been built between Aberdeen and Stonehaven.
single
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The road through Littleton is only a single carriageway .
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She added the planned cross town route would only be single carriageway and would rapidly become overcrowded with vehicles.
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Other examples are generally far less elaborate, involving only a single carriageway .
■ NOUN
northbound
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Traffic tailed back fourteen miles after police were forced to close the inside lane of the northbound carriageway .
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He gave the women a thirty-second start and picked them up on the northbound carriageway with ease.
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Seven people were injured in the crashes which happened during the rush hour on the northbound carriageway at the Fortwilliam junction.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both carriageways were closed for eight hours causing huge tailbacks.
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Every major road out of the centre had its tramway running up the centre of a dual carriageway .
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He united the two offices into one neo-classical building with a carriageway running between them.
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Just at that moment he saw the exit from the Westway and swung off the raised carriageway .
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Local consultation on the road which would be dual carriageway , with a possible extension is due to end next week.
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That involves building one whole new carriageway at the side of the existing motorway.
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The accident happened on a busy dual carriageway when the transporter hit a grass verge and landed on top of one of the cars.
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This is on a dangerous bend where pedestrians have to walk on the carriageway .