main highway

collocation in English

meaningsofmainandhighway

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main
adjective[before noun]
uk
/meɪn/us
/meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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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 ofmainandhighwayfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmain highway

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The bridge to the island(s) was about ten miles off themainhighway.
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The bridge to the island was about ten miles off themainhighway.
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A battle is on to reserve themainhighwayfor motor traffic exclusively.
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Anywhere else on amainhighwaymeant a 60 mph limit in the case of a single carriageway and 70 mph for a motorway-type road.
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In 2000, in excess of 1,000 people spilled on to themainhighwaythat runs through my constituency.
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From there, on themainhighwaybetween those two old towns, the road is unlit.
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I find that the reason generally is that the surface of the cycle track is greatly inferior to the surface of themainhighway.
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It will mean crossing amainhighwayto put in an extended runway, which will cause many problems of architecture, design, and construction.
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In a strategic study, why was themainhighwayroute not treated from a strategic perspective?
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A man developing an estate builds a side road leading away from themainhighway.
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We are clear that themainhighwayand traffic management functions must rest with the seven new county councils.
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The chaos is further aggravated by the fact that a very large amount of military traffic goes along thatmainhighway.
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Its only international airport is in easy rocket range of potential aggressors, as are its major cities and itsmainhighway.
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We know that in the remote areas there are often little-used roads, sometimes little more than accommodation roads from themainhighwayto a remote farm or estate.
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At a cost of several millions of pounds and involving the destruction of hundreds of properties, a newmainhighwayis being driven through the heart of the town.
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Additionally, plans are in the works to construct new roads connecting littoral towns in the region to themainhighway.
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This is odd because both highways end up having at-grade intersections, albeit with a grade-separation of themainhighwaycorridors.
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It is possible to closely inspect this landmark by traveling short dirt road off of themainhighway.
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It is themainhighwaybetween these two cities.
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In addition to numbers, routes also use suffixed letters and banners appended to the tops of signs to indicate alternate routes to themainhighway.
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