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Some cars have a petrol gauge that stays on full for a long time.

He took another reading of the petrol gauges, and his lips tightened.

The petrol gauge showed that the tank was full.

'This is the petrol gauge part we needed for your speedboat.

'But would it perhaps just be worth looking at the petrol gauge?'

He was peering at the petrol gauge.

Key in the ignition, nothing in the glove compartment and the petrol gauge read empty.

He sighed his despair, glanced at the Mazda's petrol gauge.

Rogan checked the petrol gauge and saw they were down to the last gallon.

And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road.

And the Rolls petrol gauge registered empty.

He tried his petrol gauges again carefully; in theory, and if the gauges were correct, they should be just all right.

She checked her petrol gauge again.

If clear, cars will drive towards the sector where officers might be seen checking the petrol gauge in every Singaporean-registered car.

"But when I had a petrol gauge on the old car I never remembered to look at it in time, so what's the use?

Ross swung the seaplane round on to an easterly course and tried his petrol gauges very carefully.

If I take the Metro you can almost see the petrol gauge dying in front of you.'

"You haven't got a petrol gauge, have you?"

"I thought," said William, "that when the petrol gauge showed empty there was at least another gallon left in the tank.'

After 1931 a petrol gauge was added, prior to this a fuel tap was incorporated to give a reserve supply.

The prototype reproduces readings with an accuracy of about 10 per cent- on par with most petrol gauges.

Petrol was running low as I zigzagged up a snow-covered escarpment, eyes flickering between the breathtaking landscape and the petrol gauge under my nose.

In others, an additional gauge is added to display the level of fuel in the autogas tank separately from the existing petrol gauge.

"It is no small mystery to me, William, how you could have managed a first class honours degree in English when you can't even read a petrol gauge."