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My wife had taken refuge in the spare room due to the volume of the snoring, which was now akin to that of a road drill.
"A vuvuzela just behind you will hit you with more than 125 decibels of sound – much louder than a road drill – which will really hurt your ears," said Crystal Rolfe, its audiology specialist.
Some travellers like to relax and linger over their lunches, so I pamper them with my Hestonburger special, a flavoursome bacon cheeseburger: it takes 14 hours and 58 minutes to construct, using three vacuum cleaners, a road drill, a blow-up doll, two shire horses and the Sadler's Wells corps de ballet, but it's worth the trouble.
Keep Eamonn's hip replacement and Philip's road drill ringtone.
Shouldn't the fact that his new phone has "a ringtone that can sound as loud as a road drill" leave me giddy as school girl?
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The noise, played through speakers in the room's corners, was strangely bland: Mr. James had traffic sounds, a motorcycle and some road drilling.
"Deadliest Danger Isn't at the Rig but on the Road" ("Drilling Down" series, front page, May 15) exposed several dirty little secrets in the trucking industry: special-interest exemptions from federal driving limits, falsifying logbooks to hide actual driving hours, and the tragic results of fatigued drivers.
Then there are the semis hauling fracking sand, gravel for drilling pads, gravel for roads, drill casings, pipeline sections, drilling rigs, huge oil tanks, and more.
The Contraband album is a smartly conceived mix of punk attitude, road-drill riffs and shrieking metal, but with plenty of hooks and harmonies to sweeten the dose.
When the band finally got around to playing the title track of the new album, it arrived like a heavy metal avalanche, equipped with a road-drill bassline and swaggering like a squadron of tanks.
Mr Twit is a shaggy-bearded, pot-bellied monster, while Mrs Twit has birds-nest hair, a glass eye and teeth that it would take a road-drill to straighten.
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