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double-decker buses

n. (double-decker bus English)

Usage examples of "double-decker buses".

And it has more congenial small things - incidental civilities you might call them - than any other city I know: cheery red pillar boxes, drivers who actually stop for you on pedestrian crossings, lovely forgotten churches with wonderful names like St Andrew by the Wardrobe and St Giles Cripplegate, sudden pockets of quiet like Lincoln's Inn and Red Lion Square, interesting statues of obscure Victorians in togas, pubs, black cabs, double-decker buses, helpful policemen, polite notices, people who will stop to help you when you fall down or drop your shopping, benches everywhere.

Taxis full of sightseers were cruising, huge furniture vans with trailers were leaving for long trips and double-decker buses were making short ones.

Let me labour the point and say that even double-decker buses and double-decker trains added to the sense of a multi-layered reality.

The Rolls stopped suddenly as a mass of pedestrians dodged through the tightly packed lines of cars and double-decker buses and taxis and trucks and carts and lorries and bicycles and handcarts and some rickshaws.

They walked up to the head of the blockade, where big civic utility trucks, bulldozers, tractors, snowplows, roadsweepers, and double-decker buses were parked end to end, as tight as any mosaic.

The red-and-white double-decker buses reminded him of London, but the many large unlit neon signs-SONY, WINSTON FILTER CIGARETTES, COCA-COLA-reminded him of Times Square.

By the time they reached the outskirts of the city the traffic was beginning to get heavier: huge trailer trucks, brightly lit double-decker buses already crowded with commuters.

The traffic was crowded and confused, and it took another hour of edging my way between red double-decker buses and black shiny taxis before I crossed the Thames over Chelsea Bridge, and made my way towards the Cromwell Road.

It was as revered as the changing of the guards, as English as double-decker buses.