peak hour
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpeakandhour
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peak
adjective[before noun]
uk/piːk/us/piːk/
Peak times are the times when most people are using or ...
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hour
noun
uk/aʊər/us/aʊr/
a period of ...
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(Definition ofpeakandhourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I am all for restrictingpeakhourdeliveries, but, if the will is there, that can be achieved under the present law.
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The latest count shows 792 vehicles in apeakhour.
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A full hour should be devoted to a weekly summary at apeakhoureach weekend.
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This revealed flows of approximately 5,000 and 4,500 respectively in the afternoonpeakhour.
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In thepeakhour20,000 people are using the station.
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They would enable the presentpeakhourcarrying capacity to be increased from about 15,000 to 26,000 each way.
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On many schedules, this is one of the problems ofpeakhouroperations and drivers' hours generally.
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Of course that is so, because during most of the year, until this year, all thepeakhourdriving has been done in daylight.
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Mixed mode, depending on whether it waspeakhouror all the time, would have an impact on that.
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Peakhourservices are making a contribution towards slack hour services.
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I would also query the accuracy of his statement about thepeakhourrestrictions having been removed.
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There will be a minimum frequency of 15 minutes during thepeakhourfor key stations.
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Can he do that and can he also distinguish betweenpeakhourand other traffic?
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At junction 9 we are investigating the use ofpeakhoursignals.
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Other stations are built forpeakhourtraffic.
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Trunk sections are the busiest core sections of each individual line which carry the heaviestpeakhourtraffic.
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We should ask the operators to re-examine whether pricing has a role to play in dealing withpeakhourcongestion.
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