Sentence examples for from the kerb from inspiring English sources

The car shunted forward once more, bounced down from the kerb, and stalled.

Measurements at the roadside (4 m from the kerb) and downwind from the traffic (more than 25 m from the kerb) show that nanoparticles (<10 nm diameter) accounted for more than 36 44% of the total particle number concentrations.

When the bus arrived, it stopped well away from the kerb so I had to negotiate my walking frame into the road.

Data were collected from a bicycle ridden a distance of one metre from the kerb fitted with an ultrasonic distance detector and forward and sideways facing cameras.

This is, of course, nonsense – some cycle trainers recommend people cycle at least 60cm from the kerb – but Francis and his production team were oblivious.

We are already in the car, the driver is smoothly pulling away from the kerb and Arianna is pulling an iPhone and a BlackBerry from her bag.

Flexing the head by this amount would likely cause a significant perturbation to balance, and no participant had this amount of flexion, with average values around 2 degrees during the approach and step from the kerb-edge, and no significant difference in the amount of head-flexion across the vision conditions (see figure 2).

A coalition of charities is calling on the Department for Transport (DfT) to fast-track legislation designed to bar drivers from mounting the kerb.

This phenomenon, fed by the popularity of panel shows featuring comedians from Off the Kerb and its main rival, Avalon, run by Jon Thoday and Richard Allen-Turner, with clients including Frank Skinner, Jenny Eclair and Al Murray, has revolutionised tastes in comedy.

"We can walk to the kerb from here".

Cluster analysis was applied to two large British databases and both highlighted an urban scenario in daylight and fine weather where a small pedestrian walks across the road, especially from the near kerb, in clear view of a driver who is travelling straight ahead.