Below you will find example sentences with "dual carriageway". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Dual Carriageway in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: dual
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 5
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 23.4 words

Words in this phrase

dual carriageway

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • dual can mean: Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components. Frequent word
  • carriageway can mean: The part of a road that carries traffic. Less frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

1 7km dual carriageway to the 1× 26 million dual carriageway was supposed 1× a busy dual carriageway 1× a busy dual carriageway during a 1× across the dual carriageway while the 1× for the dual carriageway we could 1× into a dual carriageway remain on 1× into a dual carriageway was first 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a car overturned 1× a dad who 1× a drunk verbally 1× a major essex 1× a scheme to 1× a section of 1×

Common sentence endings:

7 until friday 1× a serious crash 1× a1 near dunbar 1× a5 alliance aa5a 1× busy dual carriageway 1× carriageway and fled 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

road 6× roundabout 4× police 3× manorcunningham 3× sections 2× busy 2× scheme 2× turn 2× car 2× major 2× following 2× section 2×

Related phrases

dual space dual citizenship dual meet

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around dual:

dual space 12× dual citizenship 7× dual meet 6×

Just before it in the phrase index:

dry season dry air drug use drug trafficking drug possession drug offences

Just after it in the phrase index:

dual citizenship dual meet dual space dublin airport dublin city duct tape

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

dual space dual citizenship dual meet

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "dual carriageway" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 23.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 1 7km dual carriageway to the, 26 million dual carriageway was supposed, road, roundabout and police stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with dual space, dual citizenship, dual meet, dual space, dual citizenship and dual meet, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with dual carriageway

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

The road, which is a dual carriageway, has tailbacks in both directions. (12 words)

A CAR overturned on a dual carriageway and landed on its roof. (12 words)

He abandoned his car in the middle of a dual carriageway and fled. (13 words)

Longer example sentences

The inclusion of TEN-T is a reference to Donegal’s biggest road improvement scheme, which seeks to upgrade the Letterkenny to Manorcunningham Road and the Manorcunningham to Lifford Road dual carriageway which will lead onwards to Strabane and the A5. (41 words)

A scheme to turn the A5 into a dual carriageway was first approved in 2007 but has been held up by legal proceedings from an opposition group known as the Alternative A5 Alliance (AA5A). (34 words)

The M180 motorway passes through North Lincolnshire, splitting into two dual-carriageway trunk roads to the Humber Bridge and Grimsby, and the A46 is now dual carriageway between Newark-on-Trent and Lincoln. (33 words)

Example sentences (20)

The M180 motorway passes through North Lincolnshire, splitting into two dual-carriageway trunk roads to the Humber Bridge and Grimsby, and the A46 is now dual carriageway between Newark-on-Trent and Lincoln.

The former has been significantly widened to a dual carriageway at several sections, although much of it remains single carriageway.

A dad who was dragged for around 100 metres onto a busy dual carriageway during a horrifying carjacking has said he is lucky to be alive.

A scheme to turn the A5 into a dual carriageway was first approved in 2007 but has been held up by legal proceedings from an opposition group known as the Alternative A5 Alliance (AA5A).

Construction of the £26 million dual carriageway was supposed to start in 2018 after scores of trees were felled in preparation.

He abandoned his car in the middle of a dual carriageway and fled.

Mrs Mary Afan, the Permanent Secretary of Government House, also thanked the governor for his infrastructure development, particularly the British American interchange (flyover) and 1.7km dual carriageway to the Lamingo Junction roundabout.

Plans to turn further sections of a major Wiltshire A-road into a dual carriageway remain on track to begin early next year.

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Police are appealing for information following the death of a pedestrian on the dual carriageway section of the A1 near Dunbar.

The inclusion of TEN-T is a reference to Donegal’s biggest road improvement scheme, which seeks to upgrade the Letterkenny to Manorcunningham Road and the Manorcunningham to Lifford Road dual carriageway which will lead onwards to Strabane and the A5.

The road, which is a dual carriageway, has tailbacks in both directions.

Traffic Control will be in operation along the N13 Dual Carriageway between the Dry Arch Roundabout and the Manorcunningham Roundabout for essential road maintenance on Wednesday June 7, until Friday.

A CAR overturned on a dual carriageway and landed on its roof.

A drunk verbally abused police officers who tried to help him after he was spotted lying down on a busy dual carriageway.

A major Essex dual carriageway has been shut this afternoon following a serious crash.

A section of the Aberdeen to Inverurie dual carriageway was closed for 12 hours after the crash at the Broomhill roundabout.

For the dual carriageway, we could have chosen a consortium of Zambian contractors to do it.

Photographs from the scene show the lorry spread across the dual carriageway while the front cab and wheels were resting on the grass verge after it crashed through the central reservation.

Police were called at around 9am today after the tree fell on the Citroen van on the dual carriageway.

She also saw lorries on the dual carriageway beneath parked across the lanes in a bid to help keep the man safe should he fall.

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