Sentence examples for system of highways from inspiring English sources

For comparison, the federal Interstate System of highways allows a maximum grade of 6percentt.

And the Interstate System of highways opened up the suburbs, for better or worse.

After World War II, we connected our states with a system of highways.

The state has a well-developed system of highways and interstate freeways.

In the 1950s and '60s, the G.I. Bill created a generation of college graduates, while the Interstate System of highways made the entire economy more productive.

The new train lines and highways will reduce commutes and help stitch together China's domestic economy, much as the Interstate System of highways did in the United States.

Most of our complaints are not new or surprising: we whine about tailgaters, about those who do not read the E-ZPass signs (the Rosetta stone to our state's cryptic system of highway tolls) as they approach the toll plazas or about fellow commuters who apply mascara, shave, read the stock pages or yap on cellphones smaller than Zippo lighters.

Open image in new window Fig. 11 The long-term health monitoring system of highway tunnel.

The most ambitious of all express highway systems was the national system of interstate highways of the United States.

This point of view was recognized by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921, which required each state to designate a system of state highways not to exceed 7 percent of the total highway mileage in each state.

An extensive system of express highways has been developed since the mid-1990s.