major highway
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmajorandhighway
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major
adjective
uk/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious 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 ofmajorandhighwayfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Access to the farm was by a well-maintained gravel road 2 km from a small town and 4 km from amajorhighway.
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Across all years of observation, households could count on a paved road connecting them to amajorhighwayabout 55 per cent of the time.
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All themajorhighwayauthorities have submitted lists of the schemes they would like to start during the next four years.
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If amajorhighwayis dumped on their doorstep, they will suffer noise, disturbance, pollution and disruption of their environment.
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There is increasing and widespread concern over the demands made upon land by furthermajorhighwayroutes.
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The first is the construction of a link road which will be the first section of amajorhighwaynetwork for the city.
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When such a road is amajorhighway, it bears a lot of traffic.
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Majorhighwayschemes are being proposed to go through the very twilight areas which we are attempting to rescue.
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I suggest that no council should have to face problems of this nature involving the construction of amajorhighway.
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After all, there are at present four independent planning,majorhighway, education and social service authorities in the area.
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It is still to be a county distributor road, and therefore it will be used as amajorhighway.
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These are technical amendments to the provisions on diversionary works made necessary bymajorhighway, bridge or transport works.
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What plans has he to include a calculation of health disbenefits in the overall calculation of benefits and costs formajorhighwayschemes?
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We are also gratified that the three newmajorhighwayprojects, which were announced earlier in the year, will start in 1985.
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As with allmajorhighwayschemes there has been and will continue to be regular consultation with all affected local authorities throughout the development of the scheme.
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But this is not the intense and continuous noise of motor traffic on amajorhighway, which is the last thing one wants if one wishes to commune with nature.
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In the amendment the words "majorhighwayworks" appear: the code of practice drawn up by the joint committee makes it absolutely clear that it refers to highway works.
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Solihull council has been emphatic that it does not want to disrupt amajorhighway.
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Hampshire is amajorhighwayauthority and a major county.
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Since their lifestyle revolved around agriculture, they preferentially settled rural lands along themajorhighwaynetworks which they moved along.
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