"Perhaps," he thought, "that was just the failure of some local line."

This amounts to 8.6 percent of all subsidized local lines.

All the local lines were closed between 1972 and 1975.

This local line was opened in 1923 and it served at least up to 1953.

But, frankly, the local lines of communication could be better.

I could mention several local lines that haven't a first to equal it.

That company would route the calls over local or long-distance lines.

The companies must also have local or toll-free lines in service 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The poles have since served a local line until the 1990s.

Once very common their use died out as local lines were closed.