four-lane highway

collocation in English

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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 ofhighwayfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffour-lane highway

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A newfour-lanehighwaywill heighten these pressures.
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The same people who would gain the advantage, however, would suffer the environmental penalty of having afour-lanehighwaydriven through their neighbourhood.
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But 60 miles an hour on the motorway is quite slow; it seems you are moving very slowly indeed; it is a beautifulfour-lanehighway.
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During the whole of that time what is normally afour-lanehighwaywill probably be restricted to one single lane carrying traffic in both directions.
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Everything had been fixed up when the solicitors for the buyers found out that the road might or might not be a motorway orfour-lanehighway.
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I do not agree, however, that there is a case for building a massivefour-lanehighwayalongside the existing road while retaining the latter in situ for local traffic.
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It is a divided,four-lanehighwayfor its entire length.
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Highway 36 serves as a main route in the city; it is afour-lanehighwaywith both at-grade and overpass intersections.
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In some sections the road is afour-lanehighwaywhile in other sections the road is either a six-lane or eight-lane highway.
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Several of those design specifications called for afour-lanehighwaywith grass shoulders, and where possible, the existing roadway would be used.
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Most of the road remains a ruralfour-lanehighwaywith at-grade intersections.
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Interstate 95 narrows to afour-lanehighwayand then dives into a below street level alignment.
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This program gradually allowed for the funding of over 1000 mi offour-lanehighwaystatewide.
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Various sections are ruralfour-lanehighwayand urbanized four-lane divided expressway.
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Route 322, which is afour-lanehighway, leads from the county to these metropolitan areas.
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The first 94 mi of route 50 isfour-lanehighway.
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The highway was paved in the 1950s and expanded to the modernfour-lanehighwayit is today in the 1960s.
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It is afour-lanehighwayfor its entire length.
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Some freeways are constructed by bypassing an established two- orfour-lanehighway.
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