speed bump
speed hump BrE , also: traffic hump BrE
road hump
speed ramp BrE
ramp BrE *

A little bit of a speed bump, but not bad.

But I wanted to see how they handle the speed bumps.

There is a speed bump, though, on the road to success.

Great art would seem to require more than just a few speed bumps.

The ride up has hit more than a few speed bumps.

To start with just 75 to 150 schools is an unnecessary speed bump.

They wanted her comeback not to hit a speed bump quite so soon.

At the same time, however, be prepared for some online speed bumps.

The least the city could do is put some speed bumps in."

They put speed bumps on our street to slow down the traffic.

But there are some speed bumps, which will be discussed below.

But just because we can is no reason to treat Russia as little more than a speed bump.

These factors act as speed bumps on the road to graduation.

He said one possibility was some other type of traffic control, like speed bumps.

With any type of relationship there's going to be speed bumps, but there was nothing unusual.

To be sure, the entire global entertainment and media industry hit a speed bump last year.

Have you ever driven down a back road and suddenly felt like you'd just ran over a series of speed bumps?

The effort resulted in the construction of speed bumps near the school.

Obviously, there have been speed bumps, but I've had a lot of breaks.

"We've had some speed bumps along the way," he said.

And every five seconds the cars hit giant speed bumps.

There is a speed bump on the road directly in front of the post, about 30 yards away.

"We've hit a speed bump, as have others in the industry," he said.

Like many excellent adventures, this one had an early speed bump.

Instead, it's more likely to be a speed bump on a voyage that's still taking shape.

Having said that, great care needs to be taken over speed humps.

"We can expect to have a speed hump there by September," he said.

The speed humps are not the solution to the problem of speeding.

The road has speed humps to prevent traffic from moving too quickly.

In the first 4 years of this program, speed humps were installed on 3 streets.

"Speed humps are wider - you can go over them without too much trauma to the front end of your car."

One criticism of speed humps is their effect on emergency vehicles.

Speed humps are thus usually not placed on primary response routes.

Would they always plonk them down on speed humps, like the one in the picture?

Two of the dead were insurgents whose bombs accidentally went off when they hit a speed hump.

All the emergency services have backed the proposal to introduce speed humps.

"A speed hump physically forces you to slow down."

You can't just put a speed hump down everywhere.

Self-enforcing measures such as speed humps are the only way to force drivers to slow down.

Speed humps can do this, whereas the evidence is that present methods do not.

And just as suddenly another fiscal speed hump.

Bowers et al argue that the simplest and most effective measure is the speed hump.

Westport has 20 speed humps, more than any other surrounding town, town officials said.

Mr. Lynn had installed speed humps at several sites in the district.

Speed tables are longer than speed humps with a flat section in the middle.

The solution, she said, is more and better sidewalks and speed humps to slow traffic.

Such speed humps have been successfully implemented on Mayer Drive.

They are generally installed in a series across a roadway resembling a split speed hump.

Speed humps are being tested in other parts of the city; no other areas will be considered until after these have been evaluated.

Generally, speed humps are 12 to 14 feet (3.7 to 4.25 m) in length and span the width of the road.