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the roadworks
noun
The construction or maintenance done to roads.
Exact(24)
Just follow the roadworks".
I would curse the roadworks and my bad luck out loud.
Due to the roadworks around Elephant and Castle, she landed on the road on her back," Ms Bance said.
Least excited about: The roadworks – usually with nobody doing any road-work – on the M1 and M6 after night games.
That is up until today, when an interactive map of all the roadworks in England and Wales is launched.
Leaving the hotel, giddy from champagne and cake, I stepped out into the roadworks and felt the feeling all over again.
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Instead, much of the roadwork was done by Azarpassillo at a much higher cost.
According to John Clemente, city engineer for New Rochelle, the roadwork started last March and is to take 18 months.
— Graying snow frosts the orange traffic cones blocking some of the roadwork around here, and the few pieces of remaining equipment sit idle.
Martin's Press, 1992), a history of the highway, known as the Alcan, said in an interview that his father, Col. Heath Twichell Sr., was assigned to the roadwork and was "heartsick" when he was given command of a black unit.
Faith Church, completed two years ago, is hard to see for the roadwork, and hard to identify, because, apart from the three stucco crosses on its façade, the building looks much like a big-box store.
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