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  1. railways

    Plural form of railway.

    The railways in our country are excellent and the government are investing a lot of money to upgrade and improve those railways that need it most.


    Submitted by MaryC on January 27, 2016  

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'RAILWAYS' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4826

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'RAILWAYS' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4201

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of RAILWAYS in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of RAILWAYS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of RAILWAYS in a Sentence

  1. Antony Blinken:

    The Russian Federation claims falsely that the international community's sanctions are to blame for worsening the global food crisis. Sanctions are not blocking Black Sea ports, trapping ships filled with food, and destroying Ukrainian roads and railways, russia is.

  2. Reverend W. Awdry (1911 - 1997):

    [Of the parralels between the railways and the church] both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic-style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination.

  3. Ashok Gulati:

    It is unlikely that India will have another drought next year; three years in a row has never happened before, but with extreme events increasing due to climate change, you never know. If we don't wake up now then, God forbid, people will leave farming to become labourers at railways stations.

  4. Kelvin Baxter:

    The whole time I've been trucking, the railways have been going to replace me, but that hasn't happened, at the moment, our concerns are finding enough drivers.

  5. Oleg Belozerov:

    Together with the government and the Russian Railways team, (I plan) to focus on continued efficiency improvements.

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  • السكك الحديديةArabic

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