Sentence examples for width of avenues from inspiring English sources

In addition, the Arbeitsstab issued extensive guidelines, ranging from the width of avenues that carried streetcar lines to the ratio of theatre seats to inhabitants.

The wide width of the avenues was an emulation of the street plan for Washington, DC, and intended to make Detroit the "Paris of the West".

They covered the entire width of the avenue and its length from the Capitol to 14th Street.

The Kennet Avenue originally consisted of stones 80 feet (25 metres) apart, arranged in pairs (according to their shapes) that faced each other across the 50-foot (15-metre) width of the avenue.

After all, they take up half the width of Second Avenue, are about three stories high and a block long, stretching between 68th and 69th Streets in one case, and 72nd and 73rd Streets in another.

It is less than a mile long but superhumanly wide: eight lanes of traffic flanked by sidewalks the width of a Manhattan avenue, with an additional, tree-lined pedestrian alley along one side of the street.

To make a statement against the war in Iraq, they needed thousands of people to stretch their arms fingertip to fingertip across most of the width of Manhattan, along 14th Street from 11th Avenue in the west to Avenue A in the east.

Subways open all sorts of avenues.

Their avenues were wider than many American highways, with sidewalks the width of a Manhattan street.

The width of roads, everything.

The width of the stripe pure Sloane.