many farmers had tar-sealed the roads to their front gates
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That is not a new road; it is a stretch of road that has just been tar-sealed.
We are very concerned that if they tar-seal it, lots of people from Auckland and Tauranga will then want to drive on it.
I sat in a queue of cars for a while as we made slow progress over the railway bridge, the tracks tar-sealed over to make a route for cars.
We've just had our road tarsealed and an old guy on the sweeper stopped and had a chat in the shelter of our gateway.
I would love my gravel road to be tar sealed.
There are some places that do not need their roads tar-sealed.
It has been progressively tar-sealed, bit by bit, and has been waiting for years to be completed.
We have tar-sealed a few, but a lot more work needs to be done.
He said we need to tar-seal every single road in New Zealand.
It was my wish to get the road to Tawharanui tarsealed so that anyone could go out and see the wonderful regional park.
Nowhere in the world has any city been able to tarseal its way out of gridlock.
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mass nounAustralian, NZ
A road surface of tar or tarmacadam.
after Meko for 5km the road is dirt and is really bad, with huge potholes, then it's tar-seal to Abeokuta
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Mark Dean slowed for a 50m stretch of slippery and sunken tarseal on Oropi Rd that usually makes his four-wheel drive truck shudder.
It has been waiting for tar-seal for years.
The rest of the ride to the Friendly Bungalows wasn't quite as easy as predicted, as the tar seal soon gave way to deeply-gouged clay once again.
The vast sums of money being turned into tarseal is the problem, not the solution.
The sixteen mile ride was not always easy - no tar seal and often a nor'wester or sou'wester.
On the way home from Hamilton, Sheryl's car skidded on melted tar-seal, slick with drizzle.
Eventually we came to a small stretch of tar seal and a clearing in the trees that exposed the coast line.
The driver lost control of the vehicle on the tarseal.
He bent over and stubbed out his cigarette on the tarseal.
Travelling north you will very likely stop to look at the seals at Ohau Point where there is a pull-off area of tar seal on your right just past Half Moon Bay.
Reality struck after the big four wheel drive turned off the tar seal at Waipiro.
The last thing one does is dig up the runway just because the rest of the airfield does not happen to have any tar-seal.