Road congestion in the Manchester and Liverpool areas has already reached strangulation point and it is regarded as impossible for the roads to handle this displaced traffic; buses already take up to three times as long as the trains to cover the same distance.

I found myself underemployed when the company downgraded me from full-time to part-time.

Many streamies use their office PCs to tune in to their favorite stations. Some use Web radio as a way to keep up with hometown news from a distance. In particular, sporting event broadcasts are very popular with streamies. Marketing analysts have noticed that the proportion of Internet users who are streamies is increasing.

Bob was off faffing about doing frou-frou nonsense whilst Edwina kept her nose to the grindstone.