paved highway

collocation in English

meaningsofpaveandhighway

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pave
verb[T]
uk
/peɪv/us
/peɪv/
to cover an area of ground with a hard, flat surface of pieces of stone, concrete, ...
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highway
noun[C]
uk
/ˈhaɪ.weɪ/us
/ˈhaɪ.weɪ/
a public road, especially an important road that joins cities or ...
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(Definition ofpaveandhighwayfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The new,pavedhighwaybypassed the hamlet center and cut some properties in two.
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Over the course of the highway's history, it was upgraded from a dirt and gravel connector route to a fullypavedhighway.
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The intention is that one day the entire road will be a continuouspavedhighway.
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Today, it is a modernpavedhighwaywith painted reflective lane-lines.
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Thispavedhighwayvaries between two and four lanes of travel.
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It is 37 kilometers to the northwest of this regional center and is connected bypavedhighway.
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The route has always been apavedhighway.
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The municipality has 61 km ofpavedhighway, 276 km of dirt roads and 52 km of dirt paths.
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It is a land without a railroad, a singlepavedhighwayor a newspaper.
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The hauling of crops to market, along with the rapidly growing change in transportation from horse-drawn vehicles to motor travel, created an insistent urge for apavedhighwaysystem.
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Thepavedhighwayends at this location.
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Trains can only go where tracks go on land; automobiles mostly go where there are paved highways; ships travel only where there is water.
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The bankruptcy trend accelerated in the middle 1920s due to additional automobiles and trucks operating on new county and state paved highways.
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There are very few paved highways in the region, as it is almost isolated from the rest of the country.
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As construction of paved highways was begun and registered motor vehicles began to rise, a need to regulate and maintain safety soon became apparent.
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They also differ in that they need to cope with uneven terrain as opposed to paved highways.
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This section of the park is mostly mixed conifer forest, and is readily accessible via paved highways.
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Of the paved highways in the country, there are 10 expressways.
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Competition with a growing population of automobiles and buses traveling on paved highways led to a decline in the interurban and other railroad passenger business.
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Private automobiles and paved highways were poised to cut into both passenger and freight traffic.
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