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  • noun Plural form of coachload.

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Examples

  • Keith Carton, from Kings Norton, said: "When was the last time anyone can recall coachloads of lager louts turning up for a heavy session?"

    Infidel Bloggers Alliance 2008

  • Keith Carton, from Kings Norton, said: "When was the last time anyone can recall coachloads of lager louts turning up for a heavy session?"

    UP Pompeii 2008

  • Including journalists and security staff there's about 40 people outside so far, although I overheard one policeman saying they were expecting 'coachloads' of demonstrators later on. "

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • We get coachloads of schoolchildren, students on photography courses, bird watchers, photographers, the anglers of course.

    Dungeness's strange beauty under threat from shingle plan 2012

  • Wandering through the cobbled alleys in the afternoon, I saw flag-waving tour guides steer coachloads of Han—the ethnic majority in China—from trinket shop to trinket shop.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • The American High School Theatre Festival brings coachloads of US youngsters on to the stage at the Edinburgh festival fringe.

    What are all these American high school students doing in Edinburgh? 2010

  • Wandering through the cobbled alleys in the afternoon, I saw flag-waving tour guides steer coachloads of Han—the ethnic majority in China—from trinket shop to trinket shop.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • Wandering through the cobbled alleys in the afternoon, I saw flag-waving tour guides steer coachloads of Han—the ethnic majority in China—from trinket shop to trinket shop.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • I guess we'll know the truth if next time a town in West Yorks get flooded, the BBC have to send two coachloads of people to report from it.

    THE GLASTONBURY JUNKET 2009

  • Disneyland is visited in family groups or coachloads, with very little interaction with other parties except while standing in line and complaining about having to stand in line.

    Me vs. The Archbishop 2009

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