Sentence examples for big commuters from inspiring English sources

Railways are also embedded in the national psyche in that Italians are big commuters: they like to stay where they were born, and will commute rather than up sticks.

Long before that, cities and towns changed from industrial economies in which the morning shift at the factory could support an evening paper to big commuter suburbs which prevented newspapers from getting beyond city limits in a timely fashion.

The suburban tribes who frequent the nation's two biggest commuter lines may be forgiven if they indulge in an after-work aperitif (or three) on the way home from a hard day in New York City.

The railroad, one of the biggest commuter networks in the country, had been running three-quarters of its usual morning service since last Monday, when a pair of track cables short-circuited in Queens, setting fire to a 1920s-era lever-and-pulley machine that controlled track switches at Jamaica Station, a critical juncture point.

It's the bit of the network that feeds workers from west London's prosperous residential areas to the City, and spreads workers from Victoria, the biggest commuter station, around the capital".We must scrape away 150 years of ballast, grot, grime, mud and whatever, plus put in modern track and proper drainage," says Howard Collins, who manages the lines for the state-owned London Underground.

Last year, for example, there were 371,000 takeoffs and landings of all types of planes -- big jets, commuter jets, private jets and propeller planes.

A chart of all La Guardia aircraft movements -- those of big jets, commuter jets, private jets and propeller planes -- shows that last year, for example, there were 371,000 takeoffs and landings, up from 358,157 in 1998 and 345,647 in 1996.

This paper describes the impact of the Portsmouth "Big Green Commuter Challenge" (BGCC) event, organised by Portsmouth City Council (PCC) in order to reduce carbon and nitrogen oxide emissions from transport within the city.

Coverage included a story in Reuters, which resulted in multiple amounts more coverage, as well as in print and online in the Evening Standard (London's biggest daily commuter free sheet, with +1m copies distributed) – both in their news and editorial comment pages.

Labour could have dug much deeper roots after 1997 if it had delivered big time for commuters.

Traffic was snarled in many big cities as commuters, unable to use public transportation, struggled to get to and from work.