He also argued that the rarity of heavy snow in the capital meant it would be uneconomical to buy the kind of snowploughs that clear New York streets. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Johnson insisted yesterday that the capital could not cope with heavy snow, adding that the rarity of the occasion meant it would be uneconomical to spend taxpayers 'money to buy the kind of snowploughs needed in such situations. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"snowploughs" coming down the practice slope, but the last turn went badly and she fell. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He also argued that the rarity of heavy snow in the capital meant it would be uneconomical to buy the kind of snowploughs that clear New York's streets. " ❋ Unknown (2009)
As we practised our snowploughs, the surroundings started to work their magic. ❋ Shazia Mirza (2010)
This company today bragged about giving the passengers customer service yet on Saturday a poor Virgin airbus was left on the runway trapped in the snow whilst snowploughs cleared the opposite runway. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Back in the UK, the row over the case for a multimillion-pound investment in snowploughs, de-icing equipment and salt stocks deepened with publication of a government-backed report by David Quarmby, chairman of the RAC Foundation, which quoted Met Office predictions that successive hard winters are rare. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Maybe it will need to be a matter for regulation : the CAA could for example oblige airport operators to have a certain level of equipment, number of snowploughs, etc, and prove that they can clear a runway in xx minutes, clear a stand in yy minutes, etc. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I am sure Boris Johnson would have said 'snowploughs,' wouldn't he, rather than 'snowplows'? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Serge #6: The fall of snowploughs from the sky/Said ending of the world was nigh. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He should instruct our local council to get snowploughs out, and then he can tell Gordon Brown to sort out the mess he has created. ❋ Unknown (2008)
So she puts on her boots, adjusts her goggles and snowploughs down the double diamond black run of Mr. Might-Be-Rights towards her own version of Happy Ever After. ❋ Miss Snark (2006)
When Hamish emerged from the hotel, a couple of tractors with snowploughs attached had cleared the hotel fore-court and even the narrow road outside had already been ploughed and salted. ❋ Beaton, M. C. (1997)
And when two hours later the conductor came in and said the snowploughs had got along and they'd soon be starting, they all wondered if it could really be less than twenty-four hours since they met. ❋ Unknown (1908)
By twelve o'clock, however, the great snowploughs, each drawn by four yokes of oxen, broke a wagon-path through the principal streets; but the foot-passengers had a hard time of it floundering in the arctic drifts. ❋ Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1871)
Blaenau Gwent has bought a fleet of smaller snowploughs to reach residential streets, and more than doubled its salt supply to 4,500 tonnes. ❋ Unknown (2011)
There is also 18cm of snow and not salt/snowploughs. ❋ Unknown (2010)
